Articles

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Agency Input as a Policy Making Tool: Analyzing the Influence of Agency Input on Presidential Policy Success in Congress, Administration & Society (forthcoming) (2013)
 

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Manager-in-Chief: Applying Public Management Theory to Examine White House Chief of Staff Performance (with David B. Cohen and Justin S. Vaughn), Political Research Quarterly (2012)
 

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Politics or Policy? How Rhetoric Matters to Presidential Leadership of Congress (with Justin S. Vaughn and Julia R. Azari), Presidential Studies Quarterly (2012)
 

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Agenda Setting from the Oval Office: An Experimental Examination of Presidential Influence over the Public Agenda (with Cigdem V. Sirin), International Journal of Public Opinion Research (2012)
 

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Staff of the People? Assessing Progress in Descriptive Representation under the Obama Administration, Race, Gender & Class (2011)
 

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Where Does the Buck Stop? Applying Attribution Theory to Examine Public Appraisals of the President (with Cigdem V. Sirin), Presidential Studies Quarterly (2011)
 

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Political Information and Emotions in Ethnic Conflict Interventions (with Cigdem V. Sirin and Nehemia Geva), International Journal of Conflict Management (2011)
 

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Promises and Human Rights: The Obama Administration on Immigrant Detention Policy Reform, Race, Gender & Class (2011)
 

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Revolt Against the Czars: Why Barack Obama’s Staffing Critics Are (Mostly) Wrong (with Justin S. Vaughn), Presidency Research Group Report (2010)
 

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The Obama Administration's Challenges after the "War on Science": Reforming Staffing Practices and Protecting Scientific Integrity in the Executive Branch (with Justin S. Vaughn), Review of Policy Research (2009)
 

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Obama’s Empty Cupboard: Contending with Administrative Vacancies and the Threat to Neutral Competence (with Justin S. Vaughn), International Journal of Public Administration (2009)
 

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Presidential Staffing and Public Opinion: How Public Opinion Influences Politicization (with Justin S. Vaughn), Administration & Society (2009)
 

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The Managing of the Presidency: Applying Theory-Driven Empirical Models to the Study of White House Bureaucratic Performance (with Justin S. Vaughn), Political Research Quarterly (2009)
 

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Conceptualizing and Measuring White House Staff Influence on Presidential Rhetoric (with Justin S. Vaughn), Presidential Studies Quarterly (2006)
 

Contributions to Books

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A Federalist George W. Bush and an Anti-Federalist Barack Obama? The Irony and Paradoxes behind Republican and Democratic Administration Drug Policies, A War that Can’t Be Won: Binational Perspectives on the War on Drugs (forthcoming) (2013)
 

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Building Coalitions, Making Policy: The Politics of the Clinton, Bush, and Obama Presidencies, by Martin A. Levin, Daniel DiSalvo, and Martin M. Shapiro, eds., Reviewed in American Review of Politics (2013)
 

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The Metamorphosis of Leadership in a Democratic Mexico (2010), by Roderic Ai Camp, Reviewed in the Bulletin of Latin American Research (2013)
 

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Sitting with Oprah, Dancing with Ellen: Presidents, Daytime Television, and Soft News, Women and the White House: Gender, Popular Culture, and Presidential Politics (2012)
 

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The Policy Czar Debate (with Justin S. Vaughn), The Obama Presidency: A Preliminary Assessment (2012)
 

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Beyond the Barrio: Latinos in the 2004 Elections (2010), by Rodolfo O. de la Garza, Louis DeSipio, and David L. Leal, eds., Reviewed in the Bulletin of Latin American Research (2012)
 

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James A. Garfield: 20th President of the United States, Chronology of the U.S. Presidency (2012)
 

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Ford Foundation, Encyclopedia of United States-Latin American Relations (2012)
 

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The Trouble with Unity: Latino Politics and the Creation of Identity (2010), by Cristina Beltrán, Reviewed in Camino Real (2011)
 

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Nixon’s Super-Secretaries: The Last Grand Presidential Reorganization Effort (2010), by Mordecai Lee, Reviewed in Presidential Studies Quarterly (2011)
 

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White House Staff (with Justin S. Vaughn), New Directions in the American Presidency (2010)
 

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Immigration, Encyclopedia of Campaigns, Elections, and Electoral Behavior (2008)
 

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Issue Evasion, Encyclopedia of Campaigns, Elections, and Electoral Behavior (2008)
 

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Presidential Election of 1980, Encyclopedia of Campaigns, Elections, and Electoral Behavior (2008)
 

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Twenty-Sixth Amendment, Encyclopedia of Campaigns, Elections, and Electoral Behavior (2008)
 

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When Made to Choose: Cross-Pressured Republican Senators and George W. Bush’s Private Account Plan, A Dialogue on Presidential Challenges and Leadership (2006)