PUBLISHED BOOKS
In production. When the People Rule: Popular Sovereignty in Theory and Practice. Co-edited with Ewa Atanassow and Thomas Bartscherer. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.

2018. Disenfranchising Democracy: Constructing the Electorate in the United States, United Kingdom, and France. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.

• Winner of the J. David Greenstone Best Book in Politics & History Award in 2019
• Reviewed in Comparative Politics, Political Science Quarterly, The American Historical Review, The Journal of American History, Perspective on Politics, Journal of American Studies, Revue d’histoire du XIXE siecle

2018. Southern Nation: Congress and White Supremacy after Reconstruction. With Ira Katznelson and John Lapinski. Princeton: Princeton University Press.

• Winner of the V.O. Key Prize for Best Book on Southern Politics published in 2018
• Winner of the D.B. Hardeman Prize for Best Book on Congress published in 2018-2019, awarded by the Lyndon Baines Johnson Foundation
• Finalist for the J. David Greenstone Book Prize in 2019
• Reviewed in The Journal of Politics, Perspectives on Politics, The Journal of American History, Congress & the Presidency, Journal of Southern History, American Historical Review, Civil War Book Review, The Nation, and positively cited in The New Yorker.

PEER REVIEWED PUBLICATIONS
In production. “The Sovereign People and the Liberal Democratic State.” In When the People Rule: Popular Sovereignty in Theory and Practice. Ewa Atanassow, Thomas Bartscherer, and David Bateman, eds. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press
In production. “A World on the Threshold.” With Ewa Atanassow and Thomas Bartscherer. In When the People Rule: Popular Sovereignty in Theory and Practice. Ewa Atanassow, Thomas Bartscherer,and David Bateman, eds. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press
2023. “The South in American Political Development.” Annual Review of Political Science 26.
2023. “Deeper Roots: Historical Causal Inference and the Legacy of Slavery.” With Eric Schickler. Journal of Historical Political Economy. 3(1): 95-124
2023. “Race and historical political economy.” With Jake Grumbach and Chloe Thurston. In The Oxford Handbook of Historical Political Economy. Jeffery A. Jenkins and Jared Rubin, eds. New York: Oxford University Press.
2022. “Judicial Power and the Shifting Purpose of Article V.”With Stephan Stohler and RobinsonWoodward-Burns. Studies in American Political Development. 36(2): 84-103.
2021. “Elections, Polarization, and Democratic Resilience” In Democratic Resilience: Can the United States Withstand Rising Polarization?. Suzanne Mettler, Robert Lieberman, and Kenneth Roberts, eds. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press
2019 “Partisan Polarization on Black Suffrage, 1785-1868.” Perspectives on Politics. 18(2): 470-491. doi:10.1017/S1537592719001087
2019 “Transatlantic Anxieties: Democracy and Diversity in Nineteenth-Century Discourse.” Studies in American Political Development. 33(2): 139-177. doi.org/10.1017/S0898588X19000105
2019 “A developmental approach to historical causal inference.” Public Choice. 185: 253-279 doi.org/10.1007/s11127-019-00713-4
2017. “A House Divided? Roll Calls, Policy Differences, and Congressional Polarization from 1877-2011.” With Josh Clinton and John Lapinski. American Journal of Political Science. 61(3):698-714.
2016. “Ideal Points and the Study of American Political Development.” With John Lapinski. Studies in American Political Development. 30(2): 1-25
2015. “Southern Politics Revisited: On V.O. Key’s ‘South in the House.”’ With Ira Katznelson and John Lapinski. Studies in American Political Development. 29(2): 154-184
2013. “Policy Issue Substance and the Political Behavior of Members of Congress.” With John Lapinski. In The Substance of Representation: Congress and Policy Making in the United States. John Lapinski. Princeton: Princeton University Press.

OTHER PUBLICATIONS
Editor-Reviewed Research Articles
2016. “An Inherent Tension within Populist Politics.” with Adam Levine. The Forum. 14(3): 311-327
2016. “Race, Party, and American Voting Rights.” The Forum. 14(1): 39-65
Book Reviews and Review Essays
2022. “Review of The Senate: From White Supremacy to Governmental Gridlock by Daniel Wirls.” Congress & the Presidency
2022. “Review of Congress and the First Civil Rights Era, 1861-1918 by Jeffrey A. Jenkins and Justin Peck.” Political Science Quarterly 137(3): 612-14
2021. “Party Politics and American Racial Orders: Review Essay of Keneisha Grant, The Great Migration and the Democratic Party, Boris Heersink and Jeffery A. Jenkins, Republican Party Politics and the American South, 1865-1968, and Nathan P. Kalmoe, With Ballots and Bullets.” Journal of Politics.
2020. “Democracy’s Discontents: Review Essay of James Fishkin, Democracy When the People are Thinking: Revitalizing our Politics through Public Deliberation, Sanford Levinson and Jack M. Balkin, Democracy and Dysfunction, Keith Bybee, How Civility Works, and Jeffery K. Tulis and Nicole Mellow, Legacies of Losing in American Politics.” Tulsa Law Review. 55(2): 163-173
2020. “Review of From Oligarchy to Republicanism: The Great Task of Reconstruction, by Forrest Nabors.” Perspectives on Politics.
2020. “Review of The South and the Transformation of US Politics, by Charles S. Bullock III, Susan A. MacManus, Jeremy D. Mayer, and Mark J. Rozell.” Perspectives on Politics.
2018. “Majority Tyranny: Review Essay of Anna Harvey, A Mere Machine: The Supreme Court, Congress, and American Democracy and Louis Fisher, Congress: Protecting Individual Rights.” Tulsa Law Review. 53(2):179-89.
2017. “Review of Building an American Empire: The Age of Territorial Expansion, by Paul Frymer.” Journal of Politics. 80(1): 15-16.
2016. “Review of Separation of Powers and Legislative Organization, by Gisela Sin.” Journal of Politics. 78(2): e11-e12.
2016. “Review of The First Congress: How James Madison, George Washington, and a Group of Extraordinary Men Invented the Government, by Fergus Bordewich.” Political Science Quarterly. 131(4): 865-66
Contributions to Section Newsletters
2019. “The Comparative Turn in American Politics.” Comparative Politics Newsletter. 29(1): 8-14
2017. “Standing on the Shoulders of Keith Poole.” The Legislative Scholar. 2(2): 22-23.
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WORKING PAPERS
“Democratization in the USA? The Impact of Suffrage Qualifications on Politics and Policy.” Revised and re-submitted; under review.
“Election Administration and Democratic Fragility.” With Robert Lieberman and Aaron Childree
“Subnational Threats to Election Administration.” With Robert Lieberman and Aaron Childree
“Break in Case of Emergency: The Necessity, Peril, and Track Record of Democratic Hardball.”
“The Dilemmas of Democratic Peoplehood.”
“Gilded Age Doughfaces and Reluctant Reformers: Northern Democratic Parties at the turn of the Century.” With Richard Barton