Research

Dissertation Project

The Lingering Effects of the Contract with America on Congressional Capacity

My dissertation focuses on Congressional oversight and policymaking capacity, as well as inter-branch politics. To this end, I compile two novel datasets encompassing the universe of public reports from the Congressional Research Service and the Government Accountability Office. With these datasets, I am able to derive high resolution images of the effects of the Contract with America on Congressional oversight and policymaking capacity across a wide range of substantive domains and federal agencies. These data also provide a venue to test longstanding theories of inter-branch and legislative-bureaucratic relations.

Methods Projects

The Balance Permutation Test: A Machine Learning Replacement for Balance Tables (with Sam Fuller)

Under Review.

Machine Learning for Subgroup Analysis: Powerful and Dangerous (with Sam Fuller)

Working Paper, 2023. A version of this project was presented at MPSA 2023.

Omnibus, Cross-Validated Variable Importance Scores (with Sam Fuller)

Working Paper, 2022.

Substantive Projects

Affect or Ideology?: The Heterogeneous Effects of Political Cues on Policy Support (with Nicolás de la Cerda and Sam Fuller)
Under Review. A version of this project was presented at WPSA 2023.

Hearts and Minds: Locating Voters in Affective-Ideological Space (with Christopher D. Hare and Sam Fuller)

Working Paper, 2023. A version of this project was presented at MPSA 2023.