2012.  “The Origin and Development of Stare Decisis at the U.S. Supreme Court.” With Timothy R. Johnson and James F. Spriggs, II.  In New Directions in Judicial Politics, ed. Kevin T. McGuire.  New York: Routledge, 167-185.

2010.  “Judicial Decision Making and Religion Cases.”  In Religion and American Politics: Classic and Contemporary Perspectives, eds. Amy E. Black, Douglas L. Koopman, and Larycia A. Hawkins.  Boston, MA: Longman, 313-321.

2010.  “Citations in the U.S. Supreme Court: An Empirical Study of their Use and Significance.” With Frank B. Cross, James F. Spriggs, II, and Timothy R. Johnson.  University of Illinois Law Review 2010 (March): 489-575.

2009. The Burger Court Opinion Writing Database. With James F. Spriggs, II and Forrest Maltzman. Washington, DC: George Washington University, Dept. of Political Science, August 6. [Codebook] [Data - compressed Stata 10 file][Document Archive]

 

2009. “Religion and Judicial Politics.” In The Oxford Handbook of Religion and American Politics, eds. Corwin E. Smidt, Lyman A. Kellstedt, and James L. Guth. New York: Oxford University Press, 518-545.

 

2007.  “Oral Advocacy before the United States Supreme Court: Does It Affect the Justices’ Decisions?”  With Timothy R. Johnson and James F. Spriggs, II.  Washington University Law Review 85 (3): 457-527.

 

2007.  “Who Controls the Law? The Majority Opinion Author, the Median Justice, and the Status Quo on the United States Supreme Court.” With Chris W. Bonneau, Thomas H. Hammond, and Forrest Maltzman.  American Journal of Political Science 51 (October): 890-905.  [Replication Data]

 

2007.  “Network Analysis and the Law: Measuring the Legal Importance of Supreme Court Precedents” With James H. Fowler, Timothy R. Johnson, James F. Spriggs, II, and Sangick Jeon.  Political Analysis 15 (Summer): 324-346.  [Replication Data]

 

2006.  “Strategy and Constraints on Supreme Court Opinion Assignment.” University of Pennsylvania Law Review 154(June): 1729-1755.  [Replication Data]

 

2006.  “U.S. House Committee Chair Selection: Republicans Play Musical Chairs in the 107th Congress.”  Coauthored with Christopher J. Deering.  American Politics Research 34(March): 223-242.  [Replication Data]

 

2006.  “The Influence of Oral Arguments on the U.S. Supreme Court.” Coauthored with Timothy R. Johnson and James F. Spriggs, II.  American Political Science Review 100 (February): 99-113.  [Replication Data]

 

2005.  “Opinion Assignment on the Rehnquist Court.”  Coauthored with Forrest Maltzman.  Judicature 89 (November-December): 121-126.

 

2005.  “Passing and Strategic Voting on the U.S. Supreme Court.”  Coauthored with Timothy R. Johnson and James F. Spriggs, II.  Law & Society Review 39(June): 349-377. (Recipient of the 2002 American Judicature Society Award) [Replication Data]

 

2004.  “A Conditional Model of Opinion Assignment on the Supreme Court.”  Coauthored with Forrest Maltzman.  Political Research Quarterly 57(December): 551-563. [Replication Data]

 

2004.  “Supreme Court Justices Really Do Follow the Election Returns.” Coauthored with Forrest Maltzman and Lee Sigelman.  PS: Political Science and Politics 37(October): 839-842.  [Replication Data] [Rehnquist Memo]

 

2002.  “Ghostwriters on the Court? A Stylistic Analysis of U.S. Supreme Court Opinion Drafts.”  Coauthored with James F. Spriggs, II and Lee Sigelman.  American Politics Research 30(March): 166-192. [Replication Data]

 

2001.  “The Politics of Speaker Cannon’s Committee Assignments.”  Coauthored with Eric D. Lawrence and Forrest Maltzman.  American Journal of Political Science 45(July): 551-562.

 

2000.  Crafting Law on the Supreme Court: The Collegial Game.  Coauthored with Forrest Maltzman and James F. Spriggs, II.  Cambridge University Press. (Recipient of the 2001 C. Herman Pritchett Award)

 

1999.  “Strategy and Judicial Choice: New Institutionalist Approaches to Supreme Court Decision-Making.”  Coauthored with Forrest Maltzman and James F. Spriggs, II.  In Supreme Court Decision-Making: New Institutionalist Approaches, ed. Cornell W. Clayton and Howard Gillman.  Chicago: University of Chicago Press.

 

1999.  “The Politics of Dissents and Concurrences on the U.S. Supreme Court.”  Coauthored with James F. Spriggs, II and Forrest Maltzman.  American Politics Quarterly 27(October): 488-514.

 

1999.  “Gender Proportionality in Intercollegiate Athletics: The Mathematics of Title IX Compliance.”  Coauthored with Lee Sigelman.  Social Science Quarterly 80(September): 518-538.  [Replication Data]

 

1999.  “Bargaining on the U.S. Supreme Court: Justices’ Responses to Majority Opinion Drafts.”  Coauthored with James F. Spriggs, II and Forrest Maltzman.  Journal of Politics 61(May): 485-506.

 

1998.  “The Development of a Legal Rule: The Federal Common Law of Public Nuisance.”  Law & Society Review 32(3): 613-638. [Replication Data]

 

1998.  “Marshalling the Court: Bargaining and Accommodation on the United States Supreme Court.”  Coauthored with James F. Spriggs, II, and Forrest Maltzman.  American Journal of Political Science 42(January): 294-315.  [Replication Data]

 

1997.  “The ‘Veepstakes’: Strategic Choice in Presidential Running Mate Selection.”  Coauthored with Lee Sigelman.  American Political Science Review 91(December): 855-864. [Replication Data]

 

1997.  “The Life of the Law: Judicial Politics and Legal Change.”  Journal of Politics 59(August): 778-802. [Replication Data]

 

1997.  “Vote Choice and the Preference for Divided Government: Lessons of 1992.”  Coauthored with Lee Sigelman and Emmett H. Buell, Jr.  American Journal of Political Science 41(July): 879-894.

 

1997.  “Amicus Curiae and the Role of Information at the Supreme Court.” Coauthored with James F. Spriggs, II.  Political Research Quarterly 50(June): 365-386.  [Replication Data]

 

1996.  “Strategic Policy Considerations and Voting Fluidity on the Burger Court.”  Coauthored with Forrest Maltzman.  American Political Science Review 90(September): 581-592. [Replication Data]

 

1996.  “May It Please the Chief? Opinion Assignments in the Rehnquist Court.”  Coauthored with Forrest Maltzman.  American Journal of Political Science 40(May): 421-443. [Replication Data]

 

1996.  “Inside the U.S. Supreme Court: The Reliability of the Justices’ Conference Records.”  Coauthored with Forrest Maltzman.  Journal of Politics 58(May): 528-539.

 

1995.  “Calling it Quits: Strategic Retirement on the Federal Courts of Appeals, 1893-1991.”  Coauthored with James F. Spriggs, II.  Political Research Quarterly 48(September): 573-597.  [Replication Data]