Books
Building the Bloc: Intraparty Organization in the U.S. Congress (New York: Cambridge University Press, 2017)
  • Awarded the 31st D.B. Hardeman Prize by the Lyndon B. Johnson Foundation for the best book on the U.S. Congress by a political scientist, historian, journalist, or biographer (2020)
  • Awarded the Alan Rosenthal Prize by the APSA Legislative Studies Section for the best work on legislative politics by a junior scholar (2018)

Divided Parties, Strong Leaders (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2025)

Co-editor (with Lawrence C. Dodd, Bruce I. Oppenheimer, and C. Lawrence Evans), Congress Reconsidered (Washington, DC: CQ Press/Sage)
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Legislating Rights: Congress and the Making of American Indian Law, 1924-1978 (with Gregory Elinson, in progress)
Articles
“Organizing at the Extreme: Hardline Strategy and Institutional Design,” Congress & the Presidency 49:1 (2022): 1-30
  • Winner of the inaugural James A. Thurber Article of the Year Award

​“State Preventive Medicine: Public Health, Indian Removal, and the Growth of State Capacity, 1780-1850,” Studies in American Political Development 34:1 (2020): 24-43

“Anatomy of Judicial Backlash: Southern Leaders, Massive Resistance and the Supreme Court, 1954-1958,” Law & Social Inquiry 43:3 (2018): 944-980 (with Gregory Elinson)

“Organizing for Insurgency: Intraparty Organization and the Development of the House Insurgency, 1908-1910,” Studies in American Political Development 27:2 (2013): 86-110
Book Chapters
“Legacies of Leadership in the Contemporary House of Representatives,” in Congress Reconsidered, eds. Lawrence C. Dodd, Bruce I. Oppenheimer, C. Lawrence Evans, and Ruth Bloch Rubin. Washington D.C.: CQ Press/Sage, 2024

“Macro-Level Pluralism: Integrating Qualitative and Quantitive Approaches in the Study of Political History,” in The Oxford Handbook of Methodological Pluralism in Political Science, eds. Janet Box-Steffensmeier, Dino P. Christenson, and Valeria Sinclair-Chapman. New York: Oxford University Press, 2023 (with Gregory Elinson and Calvin TerBeek)

“House Parties, Divided: Intraparty Organization in the Contemporary Congress,” in Congress Reconsidered, eds. Lawrence C. Dodd, Bruce I. Oppenheimer, and C. Lawrence Evans. Washington D.C.: CQ Press/Sage, 2021

“Lessons from the History of Reform” in Congress Overwhelmed: The Decline in Congressional Capacity and Prospects for Reform, eds. Timothy M. LaPira, Lee Drutman, and Kevin R. Kosar. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2020

“Congress and American Political Development” in The Oxford University Handbook of American Political Development, eds. Richard M.  Valelly, Suzanne Mettler, and Robert C. Lieberman. New York: Oxford University Press, 2016 (with Eric Schickler)