Publications

Books

Sourcebook of United States Executive Agencies, Second Edition (with David E. Lewis). 2018. Washington, DC: Administrative Conference of the United States. Available at: https://www.acus.gov/publication/sourcebook-united-states-executive-agencies-second-edition

Sourcebook of United States Executive Agencies (with David E. Lewis). 2012. Washington, DC: Administrative Conference of the United States. Available at: https://www.acus.gov/publication/sourcebook-united-states-executive-agencies-first-edition

Articles

"The Politicization Conversation: A Call to Better Define and Measure the Concept." (with Scott Limbocker and Mark D. Richardson). Presidential Studies Quarterly (forthcoming).

“Under Pressure: Centralizing Regulation in Response to Presidential Directives.” (with Cody Drolc, Jordan Butcher, Nicholas Brothers, and Hanna K. Brant). Presidential Studies Quarterly (forthcoming). Available at: https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1111/psq.12764.

"Anticipated Adjudication: An Analysis of the Judicialization of Agency Staffing." (with Scott Limbocker and William G. Resh). Journal of Public Administration Research and Theory (forthcoming). Available at: https://academic.oup.com/jpart/advance-article/doi/10.1093/jopart/muab040/6380787?login=true.

“’If Men Were Angels’: The Legal Dynamics of Overseeing the Presidency.” (with Caylie Milazzo). 2021. Presidential Studies Quarterly 51(2):426-449. Available at: https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/psq.12714.

“The Headless Fourth Branch: Rethinking the Assumptions of Administrative Jurisprudence.” 2021. Perspectives on Public Management and Governance 4(2):170-185. Available at: https://academic.oup.com/ppmg/advance-article-abstract/doi/10.1093/ppmgov/gvaa023/5993474?redirectedFrom=fulltext.

“The Best Laid Plans: How Administrative Burden Complicates Voting Rights Restoration Law and Policy.” 2019. Missouri Law Review 84(4):999-1036. Available at: https://scholarship.law.missouri.edu/mlr/vol84/iss4/6/.

“Don’t Sweat the Details!: Enhancing Congressional Committee Capacity Through The Use of Detailees.” (with Russell W. Mills). 2017. Legislative Studies Quarterly 42(4):611-636. Available at: http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/lsq.12171/full

“Understanding Employee Turnover in the Public Sector: Insights from Research on Teacher Mobility.” (with Jason A. Grissom and Samantha L. Viano). 2016. Public Administration Review 76(2):241-251. Available at: http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/puar.12435/abstract

“What Makes an Agency Independent?” 2015. American Journal of Political Science 59(4):971-987. Available at: http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/ajps.12161/abstract

“Political Control and the Forms of Agency Independence.” (with David E. Lewis). 2015. George Washington Law Review 83(4/5):1487-1516. Available at: http://www.gwlr.org/political-control-and-the-forms-of-agency-independence/

“Influencing the Bureaucracy: The Irony of Congressional Oversight.” (with Joshua D. Clinton and David E. Lewis). 2014. American Journal of Political Science 58(2):387-401. Available at: http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/ajps.12066/abstract

“The House as a Stepping Stone to the Senate: Why Do So Few African-American House Members Run?” (with Gbemende Johnson and Bruce I. Oppenheimer). 2012. American Journal of Political Science 56(2):387-399. Available at:

http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/j.1540-5907.2011.00562.x/abstract

Peer Reviewed Book Chapters

“Political Control of Regulatory Authorities.” In, Fabrizio Di Mascio, Martino Maggetti, and Alessandro Natalini, eds., Handbook of Regulatory Authorities. Northampton, MA: Edward Elgar Publishing (forthcoming).

“The Hollowed State: Managing Trump’s State Department.” 2021. In, Ralph G. Carter, ed., Contemporary Cases in U.S. Foreign Policy, 6^th Ed. Lanham, MD: Rowman and Littlefield.

Book Reviews

“Book Review: Strategies for Governing: Reinventing Public Administration for a Dangerous Century.” 2020. Perspectives on Politics 18(3):1006-1007. Available at: https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/perspectives-on-politics/article/strategies-for-governing-reinventing-public-administration-for-a-dangerous-century-by-alasdair-roberts-ithaca-cornell-university-press-2019-210p-11500-cloth-2595-paper/9B011A31AB5E68D01D0F72E254F74AE1.

“Book Review: Presidential Leverage: Presidents, Approval, and the American State.” 2018. Perspectives on Politics 16(3):842-843. Available at: https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/perspectives-on-politics/article/presidential-leverage-presidents-approval-and-the-american-state-by-daniel-e-ponder-stanford-stanford-university-press-2017-240p-9000-cloth-2795-paper/8B506382738822A65D06E130CBD90E52

“Book Review: Agenda Crossover: The Influence of State Delegations in Congress.” 2018. Political Science Quarterly 133(3):590-592. Available at: https://www.psqonline.org/article.cfm?IDArticle=19838.

“Book Review: Above Politics: Bureaucratic Discretion and Credible Commitment.” 2017. American Review of Public Administration 47(4):496-497. Available at: http://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.1177/0275074017691636.

Other Academic Publications

“Reconsidering Agencies as Active Participants in Theories of Political Control,” Notice & Comment, Yale Journal on Regulation (Nov. 1, 2021). Available at: https://www.yalejreg.com/nc/symposium-by-executive-order-09/.

“The future of election administration: How will states respond?” 2020. In, Daniel Jackson Danielle Sarver Coombs, Filippo Trevisan, Darren Lilleker, and Einar Thorsen, eds., U.S. Election Analysis 2020: Media, Voters and the Campaign. Available at: https://www.electionanalysis.ws/us/president2020/section-7-democracy-in-crisis/the-future-of-election-administration-how-will-states-respond/.

“Is the Administrative State Legitimate?” (with Joseph Postell), Starting Points (October 30, 2017). Available at: http://startingpointsjournal.com/administrative-state-legitimate/

Media

“Steve Bannon is held in criminal contempt of Congress, pushing key question over presidential power to the courts.” The Conversation (Oct. 29, 2021). Available at https://theconversation.com/steve-bannon-is-held-in-criminal-contempt-of-congress-pushing-key-question-over-presidential-power-to-the-courts-170426.

“Who has the power to say kids do or don’t have to wear masks in school – the governor of the school district? It’s not clear.” The Conversation (Aug. 19, 2021). Available at https://theconversation.com/who-has-the-power-to-say-kids-do-or-dont-have-to-wear-masks-in-school-the-governor-or-the-school-district-its-not-clear-166128.

“In gun debate, both sides have evidence to back them up.” (with Zach Lang), The Conversation (April 1, 2021). Available at: https://theconversation.com/in-gun-debate-both-sides-have-evidence-to-back-them-up-158118.

“Mail-in voting’s potential problems only begin at the post office – an underfunded, underprepared decentralized system could be trouble.” The Conversation (Aug. 26, 2020). Available at: https://theconversation.com/mail-in-votings-potential-problems-only-begin-at-the-post-office-an-underfunded-underprepared-decentralized-system-could-be-trouble-143798.

“How the Constitution’s federalist framework is being tested by COVID-19.” FixGov (June 8, 2020). Available at: https://www.brookings.edu/blog/fixgov/2020/06/08/how-the-constitutions-federalist-framework-is-being-tested-by-covid-19/.

“Can the president really order the military to occupy US cities and states?” The Conversation (June 2, 2020). Available at: https://theconversation.com/can-the-president-really-order-the-military-to-occupy-us-cities-and-states-139844.

“Trump versus the states: What federalism means for the coronavirus response.” The Conversation (April 17, 2020). Available at: https://theconversation.com/trump-versus-the-states-what-federalism-means-for-the-coronavirus-response-136361.

“Impeachment resolution: 3 reasons the House voted even though the Constitution doesn’t require it.” The Conversation(October 30, 2019). Available at: https://theconversation.com/impeachment-resolution-3-reasons-the-house-voted-even-though-the-constitution-doesnt-require-it-126101.

“Trump, Ukraine, and a whistleblower: Ever since 1796, Congress has struggled to keep presidents in check.” The Conversation (September 25, 2019). Available at: https://theconversation.com/trump-ukraine-and-a-whistleblower-ever-since-1796-congress-has-struggled-to-keep-presidents-in-check-124146.

“Staff have the skills to assist Congress, but they need more resources.” (with Hanna K. Brant), LegBranch.com (October 9, 2018). Available at: http://www.legbranch.com/theblog/2018/10/9/staff-have-the-skills-to-assist-congress-but-they-need-more-resources.

“As DACA Winds Through Courts, A Cautionary Tale in Executive Orders.” Newsy.com (June 7, 2018). Available at: https://www.newsy.com/stories/what-the-supreme-court-might-consider-if-it-takes-daca-case/.

“Congressional committee staffs have shrunk. Here’s one way Congress makes up the difference.” (with Russell W. Mills), Monkey Cage, Washington Post (June 14, 2017). Available at: https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/monkey-cage/wp/2017/06/14/congressional-committee-staffs-have-shrunk-heres-one-way-congress-makes-up-the-difference/?utm_term=.30dbd4e96410