Published Articles

Articles in Refereed Journals

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"Pivots Versus Signals in Elections" (with Kenneth Shottts)

Forthcoming Journal of Economic Theory

 

"Strategic Uncertainty as a Cause of War" (with Anne Sartori)

Forthcoming Quarterly Journal of Political Science

 

"Desing, Inference and the Strategic Logic of Suicide Terrorism" (with Scott Ashworth, Joshua Clinton and Kris Ramsay)

American Political Science Review 2008 102(2):269-273

 

"Electoral Contests, Incumbency Advantages and Campaign Finance." 

Journal of Politics 2008 27(3):681-699

 

"Communication and Bargaining in the Spatial Model."

International Journal of Game Theory 2007 35:251-266

 

"Probabilistic Voting and Accountability in Elections with Uncertain Policy Constraints."

Journal of Public and Economic Theory 2007 9(1):41-68.

 

"In Defence of Exclusionary Deliberation: Communicatin and Voting with Private Beliefs and Values."

Journal of Theoretical Politics 2007 19:301-328

 

"Run Boris Run: Strategic Voting in Sequential Elections." with Joshua Tucker

Journal of Politics 2007 69(1):88-89.

 

"Designing Institutions to Aggregate Preferences and Information."

Quarterly Journal of Political Science 2006 1(4):373-392.

 

"Fully Revealing Equilibria of Multiple-Sender Signaling and Screening Models," with David Baron

Social Choice and Welfare 2006 26:455-470.

 

"Polling Games and Information Revelation in the Downsian Framework."

Games and Economic Behavior 2005, 51:464-489.

 

"Parties in Elections, Parties in Government, and Partisan Bias," with Keith Krehbiel and Thomas Romer,

Political Analysis 2005, 13(2):113-138.

 

"Keeping the Other Candidate Guessing: Electoral Competition when Preferences are Private Information."

Public Choice 2005, 122:299-318.

 

"Contributions and Elections with Network Externalities," with Alan Wiseman

Economics and Politics 2005, 17(1):77-110.

 

"Informational Party Primaries and Strategic Ambiguity."

Journal of Theoretical Politics 2005, 17(1):107-136.

 

"Testing Explanations of Strategic Voting in Legislatures: A Reexamination of the Compromise of 1790," with Joshua Clinton,

American Journal of Political Science 2004, 48(4):675-689.

 

"Learning From Terrorism Markets," with Joshua Tucker.

Perspectives on Politics 2004, 2(2):331-336.

 

"Spatial Models of Delegation," with Jonathon Bendor,

American Political Science Review 2004, 98(2):293-310.

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"The Core of Social Choice Problems with Monotone Preferences and a Feasibility Constraint."

Social Choice and Welfare 2004, 22(3):447-466.

 

"Integrating Roll Call Analysis and Voting Theory: A Framework," with Joshua Clinton

Political Analysis 2003, 11:381-396.

 

"On the Existence of Equilibria to Bayesian Games with Non-Finite Type and Action Sequences."

Economic Letters 2003, 78:213-218.

 

"Power and the Motion to Recommit," with Keith Krehbiel

Legislative Studies Quarterly 2002, 27:191-218.

 

"Informative Voting and Condorcet Jury Theorems with a Continuum of Types."

Social Choice and Welfare 2002, 19:219-236.

 

"Agenda Constrained Legislator Ideal Points and the Spatial Voting Model," with Joshua Clinton

Political Analysis 2001, 9(Summer):242-259.

 

Articles in Edited Volumes

"Testing Theories of Lawmaking," with Keith Krehbiel and Jonathon Woon

in David Austen-Smith and John Duggan, eds., Social Choices and Strategic Decisions: Essays in honor of Jeffrey S. Banks. Springer, 2005.

 

"Strategic Factors in Hospital Selection for HMO and PPO Provider Networks," with Jack Zwanziger

in Michael A. Morrisey, ed., Managed Care and Changing Health Markets. Washington, D.C.: AEI Press, 1998.