Research
Dissertation
Responsible Agents? Public Opinion, Uncertainty and Party Policy Change
Committee: James Adams (chair), Zeev Maoz, Josephine Andrews, Ethan Scheiner
Publications and Work under Review
Publications
"Timely Decisions: The Effects of Past National Elections on Party Policy Change" forthcoming at Journal of Politics (January, 2009). <pdf>
"Survival of the Fittest? Cabinet Duration in Post-Communist Europe" Comparative Politics 40(3): 313-329 (with Laron Williams) <pdf>
"Do Parties Adjust Their Policies in Response to Rival Parties’ Policy Shifts? Spatial Theory and the Dynamics of Party Competition in Twenty-Five Postwar Democracies" forthcoming at British Journal of Political Science (with James Adams) <pdf>
"Moderate Now, Win Votes Later: The Electoral Consequences of Parties’ Policy Shifts in Twenty-Five Postwar Democracies" at Journal of Politics (with James Adams) <pdf> <supplementary>
Revise and Resubmit
"Polarization and Political Stability in Multiparty Systems (1945-1998)" under review at British Journal of Political Science (with Zeev Maoz) <pdf>
Under Review
"Party Policy Strategies and Valence Issues: The Effect of Government Membership and Economic Performance on Parties’ Policy Strategies in Post-Communist Europe" under review at Public Choice. <pdf>
"Policy-Seeking Parties in Proportional Systems with Valence-Related Uncertainty: Does Collective Responsibility for Performance Alter Party Strategies?" under review at Public Choice (with James Adams, Lawrence Ezrow, and Samuel Merrill III) <pdf>
"Is Anybody Listening? Evidence that Voters do not Respond to European Parties' Policy Programmes" under review at American Journal of Political Science (with James Adams and Lawrence Ezrow). <pdf> <supplementary material>
Working Papers:
"Political Parties and Electoral Strategies: The Movement of Parties in Ideological Space" (with Jeannette Money and Josephine Andrews).
"Huddling up for Survival: Pre-Electoral Coalitions and Cabinet Duration"
"Economic Voting in Post-Communist Europe: Is It Special or Ordinary?"
"The Informational Content of Electoral Competition and its Impact on the Political Survival of Party Leaders" (with Josephine Andrews and Robert Jackman)
"The Effect of Europeanization on Party Families: An Analysis of the Political Party Manifestos for Convergence" (with Robert Harmel and Jason Smith)