Research

Publications

Forthcoming. Deus ex Machina: Candidate Web Presence and the Presidential Nomination Campaign. Political Research Quarterly, (with Corwin D. Smidt and Costas Panagopoulos). Appendix |Bibtex

Forthcoming. Quality Over Quantity: Amici Influence and Judicial Decision Making. American Political Science Review, (with Janet M. Box-Steffensmeier and Matthew P. Hitt). Appendix | Bibtex

Forthcoming. The Evolution and Formation of Amicus Curiae Networks. Social Networks, (with Janet M. Box-Steffensmeier). Appendix | Bibtex

2013. Crowdsourcing Panel Studies and Real-Time Experiments in MTurk. The Political Methodologist, 20(2): 27--33 (with David M. Glick). Bibtex

2012. More Bang for the Buck: Campaign Spending and Fundraising Success. American Politics Research, 40(6): 949-975 (with Corwin D. Smidt). Appendix | Bibtex

2012. Still Part of the Conversation: Iowa and New Hampshire’s Say within the Invisible Primary. Presidential Studies Quarterly, 42(3): 597-621 (with Corwin D. Smidt). Bibtex

2011. Riding the Waves of Money: Contribution Dynamics in the 2008 Presidential Nomination Campaign. Journal of Political Marketing, 10: 1-23 (with Corwin D. Smidt). Bibtex

2011. Correlation.In “International Encyclopedia of Political Science”, ed. Bertrand Badie, Dirk Berg-Schlosser, and Leonardo Morlino, Thousand Oaks, CA, Sage Publications. Bibtex

2009. Speeding Up R for Windows. The Political Methodologist, 17(1): 4-11 (with Joshua A. Morris). Bibtex

2007. Changing Horses in Wartime? The 2004 Presidential Election. Political Behavior, 29: 279-304 (with Herbert F. Weisberg). Bibtex

Projects

Dissertation: "The Electoral Intersection: Information and Context"

Data collection:

Interest Group Networks (external site)

The Visible Primary of 2008 (external site)

The Ohio Political Survey 2006 (TOPS) (external site)

PolMeth XXV poster: Learning from the Campaign Environment
PolMeth XXVI poster: Issues, Media and Momentum in the 2008 Primary

Resources & Code

Importing and Exporting Data

Guide on Fixed Width Data Importing (pdf)

Addendum on Importing Data (pdf)

R

An Introduction to Using R (pdf) | Accompanying R Script (txt) | Accompanying Data (zip)

OLS Data Analysis in R (pdf) | Accompanying R Script (txt) | Accompanying Data (zip)

An Introduction to Complex Surveys in R (pdf) | Accompanying Data & R Script File (txt)

Stata

An Introduction to Stata (pdf) | Accompanying Data & .Do File (zip)