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Research

​Here is a list of my publications... If you are looking for data or survey instruments, please contact me.
The New Entrepreneurial Advocacy: Silicon Valley Elites in American Politics. 2021. Oxford University Press. With Darren Halpin.  

"Can Celebrities Set the Agenda?" 2021. Political Research Quarterly. Forthcoming. 
"Lobbying Conflict, Competition, and Working in Coalitions." Social Science Quarterly 100,4. With Adam Newmark. 
Editor, Interest Group Politics, 10th edition. 2020. Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage. With Burdett A. Loomis.
"Gender-Based Differences in Information Use and Processing among State Legislators." Journal of Women, Politics and Policy. Forthcoming. With Patricia Freeman.
Organizing for Transgender Rights: Collective Action, Group Development, and the Rise of a New Social Movement. Albany, NY: SUNY Press. 2019.

 

"Using a Randomized, Post-test Only, Control Group Survey Experiment to Explore the Effects of Celebrity Candidate Endorsements on Voter Emotions." 2019. In Sage Cases in Research Methods, edited by Martin Perchard. Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage.

“Celebrity Endorsements and Presidential Popularity.” 2019. In Popular Media and Public Opinion, edited by Heather Yates and Timothy Hill. Lanham, MD: Lexington Book.

"Can the Red Queen Help? A New Approach to Explaining the Formation of Interest Groups in the United States." 2018. Interest Groups and Advocacy 7:61-81. With Curtis Bell.

 

"The Balancing Act of Establishing a Policy Agenda: Conceptualizing and Measuring Drivers of Issue Prioritization within Interest Groups." 2018. Governance 31(2): 215-237. With Darren Halpin and Bert Fraussen.

"Interest Groups in the States." 2017. In Virgina Gray and Russell L. Hanson, eds., Politics in the American States, 11th ed. Washington, DC: CQ Press. With Adam Newmark.

"It’s All Relative: Perceptions of Interest Group Power and Influence." 2017. Interest Groups and Advocacy 6: 66-90. With Adam Newmark.

"Celebrity Endorsements and Voter Emotions." 2017. American Politics Research 45: 648-672.

"An Experimental Investigation of How Judicial Elections Affect Public Faith in the Judicial System." 2016. Law and Social Inquiry 41: 37-60. With Colin Glennon.

"The Information Portfolios of Interest Groups.: 2016. Interest Groups and Advocacy. 5: 57-81. With Adam Newmark.

 

Editor, Interest Group Politics, 9th edition. 2015. Washington, DC: CQ Press. With Burdett Loomis and Allan Cigler.

 

"Interest Groups and America’s ‘Invisible Governments’: Patterns of Participation and Conflict in Special District Politics." 2015. In Interest Group Politics, 9th edition, eds. Burdett A. Looms, Allan J. Cigler, and Anthony J. Nownes. Washington, DC: CQ Press.

 

"Organization Demography Research in the United States." 2015. In The Organization Ecology of Interest Communities: An Assessment and An Agenda, eds. David Lowery, Virgina Gray, and Darren Halpin. London: Palgrave-MacMillan.

 

"Interest Groups and Transgender Politics." 2015. In Jami Taylor and Donald Haider-Markel, eds., Transgender Rights and Politics. Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press.

 

"The Political Activities of American Corporate Leaders." 2013. With Nurgul Aitalieva. Business and Politics 15: 493-527.

 

​Interest Groups in American Politics​: Pressure and Power. 2013. New York: Routledge.

 

"An Experimental Investigation of the Effects of Interest Group Endorsements on Poorly-Aligned Partisans in the 2008 Presidential Election." 2013. Party Politics 20: 617-631. ​​​​​With Gregory Neddenriep.​

 

"An Experimental Investigation of the Effects of Celebrity Support for Political Parties in the United States." 2012. American Politics Research 40: 476-500.

 

"Interest Groups in the States." 2012. In Virgina Gray and Russell L. Hanson, eds., Politics in the American States, 10th ed. Washington, DC: CQ Press. With Adam Newmark.

 

"Congress and Interest Groups." 2012. In Jamie Carson, ed. New Directions in Congressional Politics. New York: Routledge.

 

"Numbers in a Niche: A Practioners Guide to Mapping Gay and Lesbian Interest Groups in the United States." 2012. In Darren Halpin and Grant Jordan, eds. The Scale of Interest Organization in Democratic Politics: Data and Research Methods. London: Palgrave.

 

"Interest Groups and State Politics." In Burdett A. Loomis, ed. 2012. Guide to Interest Groups and Lobbying. Washington, DC: CQ Press.

 

"Reappraising the Survival Question: Why Should We Focus on Interest Group 'Careers?'" 2012. In Allan J. Cigler and Burdett A. Loomis, eds. Interest Group Politics, 8th ed. Washington, DC: CQ Press. With Darren Halpin.

 

"An Assessment of City-County Consolidation in Nashville/Davidson County." 2010. In Suzanne Leland and Kurt Thurmaier, eds. City-County Consolidation Cases: Promises Made, Promises Kept? Washington, DC: Georgetown University Press. With David J. Houston.

 

"Density Dependent Dynamics in the Population of Transgender Interest Groups in the United States, 1964-2005." 2010. Social Science Quarterly 91: 689-703.

 

"Resolved: The 'No Cup of Coffee' Rule Should be Adopted in Washington." 2010. In Richard J. Ellis and Michael Nelson, eds. Debating Reform: Conflicting Perspectives on How to Fix the American Political System. Washington, DC: CQ Press.

 

"Lobbying in the New Millennium: Evidence of Continuity and Change in Three States." 2009. State Politics and Policy Quarterly 4: 429-444. With Krissy Walker DeAlejandro.

 

"Governors, Lobbying, and the Legislature: Evidence from a Pilot Study. 2009." In Conor McGrath, ed. Interest Groups and Lobbying: Volume One--The United States and Comparative Studies. New York: Edward Mellen Press. With Marc Osborn

 

"Interest Group Politics in the States--Four Decades of Developments--the 1960s to Present." 2008. In The Book of the States, Volume 40. Lexington, KY: The Council of State Governments. With Clive S. Thomas and Ronald J. Hrebenar.

"Citizen Participation in Local Government." 2008. In Evan M. Berman and Jack and Rabin, eds. Encyclopedia of Public Administration and Public Policy, Second Edition. New York: CRC Press.

"Organized Interests and Campaign Professionals: Insights from the States." 2008. Journal of Political Marketing 7: 183-202. With Robert Alexander.

"Negotiating Newsworthiness: Interest Groups and Journalists in the States. 2007. State Politics and Policy Quarterly 7: 39-53. With Christopher Cooper.

"Large Donor Patrons: What They Give and What They Get." 2007. In Allan J. Cigler and Burdett A. Loomis, eds. Interest Group Politics, Seventh Edition. Washington, DC;:CQ Press. With Allan J. Cigler.

 

Total Lobbying: What Lobbyists Want (and How They Try to Get It). 2006. New York: Cambridge University Press.

 

"Interest Groups and the States." 2008. In Virginia Gray and Russell L. Hanson, eds. Politics in the American States, Ninth Edition. Washington, DC: CQ Press.

"The Changing Group Universe, Sources of Interest Group Studies, Lobbyists, and Foundations as Interest Groups." 2006. In Clive S. Thomas, ed. The Handbook of Political Science Literature on Interest Groups. Westport, CO: Greenwood Press.

"Women Lobbyists: The Gender Gap and Interest Representation." Politics and Policy 33: 136-153. With Michael Bath and Jennifer Gayvert.

"Perceptions of Power: Interest Groups in Local Politics." 2005. State and Local Government Review 37: 206-216. With Christopher Cooper.

"The Population Ecology of Interest Group Death: Gay and Lesbian Rights Interest Groups in the United States, 1948-1998." 2005. British Journal of Political Science 35: 303-319. With Daniel Lipinski.

"A Tale of Two Localities: Knoxville-Knox County Consolidation." 2004. In Kurt Thurmaier, Richard Feiock, Jered Carr, and Suzanne Leland, eds. Changing the Local Government Landscape: Local Government Consolidation. Armonk, NY: M.E. Sharpe. With David Houston.

"The Population Ecology of Interest Group Formation: Mobilizing for Gay and Lesbian Rights in the United States, 1950-1998." 2004. British Journal of Political Science 34: 49-67.

"Money Well Spent? An Experimental Investigation of the Effects of Advertorials on Citizen Opinion." American Poilitics Research 32: 546-569. With Christopher Cooper.

 

"Citizen Groups in Big City Politics." 2003. State and Local Government Review 35: 102-111. With Christopher Cooper.

"Textiles, Traditions, and Scandal: Money in South Carolina Politics." 2002. In David Schultx ed. Money, Politics, and Campaign Finance Reform in the United States. Durham, NC: Carolina Academic Press. With Christopher Cooper.

Pressure and Power: Organized Interests in American Politics. 2000. Boston: Houghton Mifflin.

"The Structure of Interest Communities: A Comparative State Analysis." American Politics Quarterly 28: 309-327.

"Interest Group Conflict, Alliances, and Opposition: Evidence from Three States." 2000. Social Science Journal 37: 231-244.

"Solicited Advice and Lobbyist Power: Evidence from Three American States." 1999. Legislative Studies Quarterly 24: 113-124.

"Toward a Better Understanding of How Groups Structure Themselves for Political Action." 1999. American Review of Politics 20: 231-244. With Shari Garber Bax.

 

"Corporate Philanthropy in a Political Fishbowl: Perils and Possibilities." 1998. In Allan J. Cigler and Burdett A. Loomis, eds. Interest Group Politics, Fifth Edtion. Washington, DC: CQ Press. With Allan J. Cigler.

"Female Lobbyists: Women in the World of Good Ol' Boys." 1998. Journal of Politics 60: 1181-1201. With Patricia Freeman.

"Interest Group Activity in the States." Journal of Politics 60: 86-112. With Patricia Freeman.

"Activists, Contributors, and Volunteers." 1998. Southeastern Political Review 26: 279-292. With Grant Neeley.

"To Toward an Explanation for Public Interest Group Formation and Proliferation: Seed Money, Disturbances, Entrepreneurship, and Patronage." Policy Studies Journal 24: 74-96. With Grant Neeley.

"Response to Imig and Berry." 1996. Political Research Quarterly 49: 155-162.

"Public Interest Group Entreprneurship and Theories of Group Mobilization." 1996. Political Research Quarterly 49: 119-146. With Grant Neeley.

"Patronage and Citizen Groups: A Reevaluation." 1995. Political Behavior 17: 203-221.

"The Other Exchange: Public Interest Groups, Patrons, and Benefits." 1995. Social Science Quarterly 76: 381-401.

"Public Interest Groups and the Road to Survival." 1995. Polity 27: 379-404. With Allan J. Cigler.

"Public Interest Group Entrepreneurs and Group Patrons." 1994. In Allan J. Cigler and Burdett A. Loomis, eds. Interest Group Politics, Fourth Edition. Washington, DC; CQ Press. With Allan J. Cigler.

"Political Language, Causal Stories, and Pesticide Regulation." 1994. American Review of Politics 15: 491-506. With Dwight Kiel.

"Agendas and Entrepreneurs: What You See and What You Get." 1993. In Ralph Meyer and Fred Baker, eds. State Policy Problems. Chicago: Nelson-Hall. With Burdett Loomis.

"Primaries, General Elections, and Voter Turnout: A Multinomial Logit Model of the Decision to Vote." 1992. American Politics Quarterly 20: 205-226.

"Interest Groups and the Regulation of Pesticides: Congress, Coaliations, and Closure." 1991. Policy Sciences 24: 1-18.

 

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