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THE SELECTION OF POLICIES FOR BALLOT INITIATIVES: WHAT VOTERS CAN LEARN FROM LEGISLATIVE INACTION (with John W. Patty), Economics & Politics (2007)

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The Influence of Unobserved Factors on Position Timing and Content in the NAFTA Vote, Political Analysis (2006)

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Strategic voting in British elections (with Michael Alvarez and Jonathan Nagler), Electoral Studies (2006)

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Whose Ear to Bend? Information Sources and Venue Choice in Policy-Making (with Sean Gailmard and John W. Patty), Quarterly Journal of Political Science (2006)

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Selection Bias and Continuous-Time Duration Models: Consequences and a Proposed Solution (with Daniel S. Morey and Megan Shannon), American Journal of Political Science (2006)

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Sources of Variation in the Frequency of Statewide Initiatives: The Role of Interest Group Populations, Political Research Quarterly (2005)

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Event History Modeling: A Guide for Social Scientists. By Janet M. Box-Steffensmeier and Bradford S. Jones. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2004., Perspectives on Politics (2005)

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Disentangling Diffusion: The Effects of Social Learning and Economic Competition on State Policy Innovation and Expansion (with Richard Witmer), Political Research Quarterly (2004)

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Using Auxiliary Data to Estimate Selection Bias Models, with an Application to Interest Group Use of the Direct Initiative Process, Political Analysis (2003)

Teaching Advanced Graduate Methods: Using Poster Sessions, The Political Methodologist (Newsletter of the Political Methodology Section of the APSA (2002)

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The Effect of Direct Democracy on the Size and Diversity of State Interest Group Populations, The Journal of Politics (2002)

The Indirect Effect of Direct Legislation: How Institutions Shape Interest Group Systems. (2005)

Selection, Encyclopedia of Research Design. (2010)

Contemporary Election Fraud: Studying State Election Fraud Cases.” (with R M. Alvarez), Election Fraud: Detecting and Deterring Electoral Manipulation (2008)

The Initiative Process and Interest Group Attention to Legislative Activity, Direct Democracy's Impact on American Political Institutions, (2008)

“Likelihood Ratio Test.”, Encyclopedia of Social Science Research Methods (2004)

"Selection Bias.”, Encyclopedia of Social Science Research Methods. (2004)

“Direct Democracy and Individual Interest Group Membership (with Daniel Bowen), Department of Political Science, University of Nebraska, Lincoln (2009)

“The Subversion of Administrative Oversight: Campaign Contributions and Nursing Home Inspections", Department of Political Science, State University of New York at Buffalo. (2009)

“Direct Democracy and Individual Interest Group Membership.” (with Daniel Bowen), American Political Science Association Conference (2008)

Methods Workshop: “Interpreting Interaction Effects in Regression Models, Departments of Political Science and Sociology, University of Kentucky. (2008)

“Modeling Sample Selection for Durations with Time-Varying Covariates, With An Application to the Duration of Exchange Rate Regimes.” (with Christopher M. Meissner), Political Methodology Conference (2008)

“Oversight Capabilities in the States: Are Professionalized Legislatures Better at Getting What They Want?" (with Chuck Shipan), American Political Science Association Conference (2008)

“Potential Ambiguities in a Directed Dyad Approach to State Policy Emulation, Midwest Political Science Association Annual Meeting (2008)

Reforming the Reform Process: How to Restore Oklahoma’s Initiative, Oklahomans for Initiative Rights. (2008)

“The Subversion of Administrative Oversight: Campaign Contributions and Nursing Home Inspections', Department of Political Science, University of Chicago (2008)

“Approaches to Modeling the Adoption and Modification of Policies with Multiple Components", State Politics and Policy Conference (2007)

“Close Enough for Comfort: A Spatial Analysis of Gaming Initiatives in California, Department of Political Science, State University of New York at Buffalo. (2007)

“Modeling Sample Selection for Durations with Time-Varying Covariates, With an Application to the Duration of Exchange Rate Regimes.” (with Christopher M. Meissner), American Political Science Association Annual Meeting (2007)

“Policy Diffusion and Administrative Policy Adoption: Do State Medical Boards Mimic Similar Ones?”, Southern Political Science Association Annual Meeting (2007)

“Potential Ambiguities in a Directed Dyad Approach to State Policy Emulation.”, Political Methodology Conference (2007)

“Subverting Administrative Oversight: Campaign Contributions and Nursing Home Inspections", Wood Johnson Scholars in Health Policy Research Annual Meeting (2007)

“Subverting Administrative Oversight: Campaign Contributions and Nursing Home Inspections", Midwest Political Science Association (2007)

The Subversion of Administrative Oversight: Campaign Contributions and Nursing Home Inspections", Southern Political Science Association Annual Meeting (2007)

“Approaches to Modeling the Adoption and Modification of Policies with Multiple Components", Midwest Political Science Association Annual Meeting (2006)

Attention to State Legislation by Indian Nations in California: Is All Tribal Lobbying About Gaming?", Midwest Political Science Association Annual Meeting (2006)

“Close Enough for Comfort: A Spatial Analysis of Gaming Initiatives in California.”, Midwest Political Science Association Annual Meeting (2006)

Contemporary Election Fraud: A Quantitative Analysis of Election Fraud Cases in California (with Mark Alvarez), Election Fraud Conference at the University of Utah, Salt Lake City (2006)

“Duration Dependence and Selection Bias.”, Southern Political Science Association Annual Meeting (2006)

“Lobbying in Multiple Venues: Access and Policy Agendas.” (with Sean Gailmard and John Patty), Southern Political Science Association Annual Meeting (2006)

“Native American Lobbying in the States: Tribal Lobby Registrations, Department of Political Science, Creighton University (2006)

“Oversight of the Nursing Home Industry.”, Robert Wood Johnson Scholars in Health Policy Research Annual Meeting (2006)

“State Lobbying Registration By Native American Tribes.” (with Richard Witmer), Southern Political Science Association Annual Meeting (2006)

“California Ante: American Indian Campaign Contributions in California.” (with Richard C. Witmer), Midwest Political Science Association Annual Meeting (2005)

“Delegation and Venue Choice in Lobbying: A Formal Model and Empirical Test.” (with Sean Gailmard and John Patty), American Political Science Association Annual Meeting (2005)

“Patterns of Interest Group Lobbying Across Policies and Venues.” (with Sean Gailmard and John W. Patty), Midwest Political Science Association Annual Meeting (2005)

The Initiative Process and Interest Group Attention to Legislative Activity.”, The Impact of Direct Democracy Conference at the University of California, Irvine (2005)

"The Initiative Process and Interest Group Re-Registrations: An Individual-Level Analysis.”, State Politics and Policy Conference (2005)

Empirically Modeling Strategic Behavior with a Unified Model of Crisis Outcome and Duration" (with Brian Lai), American Political Science Association Annual Meeting (2004)

“The Correlates of Electoral Fraud: A Quantitative Analysis of Fraud Cases in California Counties" (with R M. Alvarez), Midwest Political Science Association Annual Meeting (2004)

“The Influence of International Organizations on War Initiation and Duration.” (with Daniel S. Morey and Megan Shannon), American Political Science Association Annual Meeting (2004)

“Disentangling Diffusion: The Effects of Social Learning and Economic Competition on State Policy Innovation and Expansion.” (with Richard Witmer), 2003. Department of Social and Decision Sciences, Carnegie Mellon University (2003)

“Hard Money, Soft Money and Campaign Finance Reform: The Emergence and Growth of American Indian Campaign Contributions” (with Richard C. Witmer), Western Political Science Association Annual Meeting (2003)

“Hard Money, Soft Money and Lobbying Expenditures: The Emergence and Growth of American Indian Campaign Contributions.” (with Richard C. Witmer), American Political Science Association Annual Meeting (2003)

“Hard Money, Soft Money and Lobbying Expenditures: The Emergence and Growth of American Indian Campaign Contributions.” (with Richard C. Witmer), Midwest Political Science Association Annual Meeting (2003)

“Political and Institutional Sources of Variation in Statewide Use of the Initiative Process.”, American Political Science Association Annual Meeting (2003)

“Self-Selectivity in Duration Models.” (with Megan Shannon and Daniel S. Morey), Midwest Political Science Association Annual Meeting (2003)

“Unanticipated Delays: A Unified Model of Position Timing and Position Content.", Department of Political Science, University of California, Santa Barbara (2003)

“Resource Growth and Indian Lobbying: Gaming Revenue and the Empowerment of Native Americans" (with Richard C. Witmer), American Political Science Association Annual Meeting (2002)

“State and American Indian Negotiation of Gaming Compacts,” (with Richard C. Witmer), Midwest Political Science Association (2002)

“Going Outside is Easier than Getting In: The Effect of Direct Democracy on Interest Group Lobbying Strategies.”, Western Political Science Association Annual Meeting (2001)

“State and American Indian Negotiation of Gaming Compacts: An Event Count Analysis,” (with Richard Witmer), Iowa Conference of Political Scientists (2001)

“State and American Indian Negotiation of Gaming Compacts: An Event Count Analysis.” (with Richard Witmer), Harris School of Public Policy, University of Chicago (2001)

“The Influence Of Direct Democracy on the Size and Diversity of State Interest Group Populations", Midwest Political Science Association Annual Meeting (2001)

“Using Auxiliary Data to Estimate Selection Bias Models.”, American Political Science Association Annual Meeting (2001)

“Using Auxiliary Data to Estimate Selection Bias Models.”, Political Methodology Annual Meeting (2001)

“Voter Information and Cues in Direct Legislation Settings,” (with John W. Patty), Public Choice Society Annual Meeting (2001)

“Voter Information and Cues in Direct Legislation Settings,” (with John W. Patty), American Political Science Association Annual Meeting (2001)

“Strategic Voting in British Elections,” (with R M. Alvarez), Midwest Political Science Association Annual Meeting (2000)

“Strategic Voting in British Elections,” (with R M. Alvarez and Jonathan Nagler), Western Political Science Association Annual Meeting (2000)

“Two-Stage Estimation of Stochastic Truncation Models With Latent Dependent Variables.”, Midwest Political Science Association Annual Meeting (2000)

“Two-Stage Estimation of Stochastic Truncation Models With Latent Dependent Variables.”, Southern California Methodology Program Winter Meeting (2000)

“Gambling on Public Policy: The Effect of the Initiative Process on State Gaming Policies.”, Midwest Political Science Association Annual Meeting (1999)

“Interest Groups and the Initiative Process.”, Western Political Science Association Annual Meeting (1999)

“Modeling Policy Diffusion Among the 50 States.”, Southern Political Science Association Annual Meeting (1999)

“The Influence of the Initiative Process on Interest Groups and Lobbying Techniques”, American Political Science Association Annual Meeting (1999)

PLOTFDS: A Stata Utility to plot the marginal effect of independent variables. (Version 1.1, (2008)

GRINTER: A Stata Utility to graph interaction effects after regression models (Version 1.5 (2008)

SUDCD: A Stata Utility to Estimate Seemingly-Unrelated Discrete-Choice Duration Models Version 1.0 (2007)

DURSEL: A Stata Utility to Estimate Duration Models with Sample Selection. (Version 2.0, (2007)