Research

Books

The Problem with Primary Voters (with Caroline Tolbert and Nathan Micatka, University of Pennsylvania Press, 2026)

Reforming Primary Elections (edited volume, with Richard Barton, De Gruyter, 2026), free open access

Money, Partisanship, and Power in Local Politics (with Lane Cuthbert, Adam Eichen, Ray La Raja, and Meredith Rolfe, Cambridge, 2025)

American Corruption Talk (with Molly McGrath, Temple University Press, 2025)

Reform and Retrenchment:  A Century of Efforts to Fix Primary Elections (Oxford, 2024)

Trumping Politics as Usual:  Masculinity, Misogyny, and the 2016 Elections (with Valerie Sperling, Oxford, 2019)

A Crisis of Civility?  Political Discourse and its Discontents (edited volume, with Tim Shaffer, Sarah Sobieraj, and Dannagal Goldtwhaite Young, Routledge, 2019)

Routledge Handbook of Primary Elections (edited volume, Routledge, 2018)

The Deregulatory Moment?  A Comparative Perspective on Changing Campaign Finance Laws (edited volume, Michigan, 2015)

Congressional Primary Elections (Routledge, 2014)

Getting Primaried:  The Changing Politics of Congressional Primary Challenges (Michigan, 2013)

Campaign Finance:  The Problems and Consequences of Reform (edited volume, IDebate Press, 2011)

Interest Groups and Campaign Finance Reform in the United States and Canada (Michigan, 2011)

Expressive Politics: Issue Strategies of Congressional Challengers (Ohio State, 2004)