My major areas of scholarly interest are political representation, social policy, voting rights policy, economic inequality, and political behavior. My first book, on the development of federal education policy - An Education in Politics: The Origin and Development of No Child Left Behind -  was published with Cornell University Press in 2012. My second book, Ballot Blocked: The Political Erosion of the Voting Rights Act, was published by Stanford University Press in 2017. My third book on race, class and representation in municipal politics is under contract with Cambridge University Press. I have also published research in Public Opinion Quarterly, Political Research Quarterly, the Quarterly Journal of Political Science, Perspectives on Politics, Political Behavior, Party Politics, Presidential Studies Quarterly, Research and Politics, American Politics Research, the Journal of Race, Ethnicity, and Politics, Polity, and other journals.