Research

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Working Papers

Estimating Proposal and Status Quo Locations Using Voting and Cosponsorship Data (Updated 7/08)
Candidate Positioning in U.S. Senate Elections: An Empirical Investigation of the Revised Spatial Model (Updated 4/08)
Scaling the Critics: Uncovering Latent Dimensions of Movie Criticism with An Item Response Approach (Updated 3/08)
(with Arthur Spirling)
Candidate Positioning and Responsiveness to Constituent Opinion in the U.S. House of Representatives
Checks and Balances in a Two-Party System (Updated 6/07)
Correcting for Survey Non-response (Updated 6/07)
Identification and Estimation of Discrete-Continuous Choice Models with Vertical Product Differentiation
(with Dennis Epple and Holger Sieg)
Securing the Base: Electoral Competition under Variable Turnout (Updated 6/07)
Small Chamber Ideal Point Estimation
The Spatial Model with Non-Policy Factors: A Theory of Policy-Motivated Candidates (Updated 6/07)


Publications

Selecting the Condorcet Winner: Single-Stage vs. Multi-Stage Voting Rules (forthcoming in Public Choice)
Strategic Voting in Multi-Office Elections (forthcoming in Legislative Studies Quarterly)

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