Prior to her time at Yale, she was affiliated with the Department of Political Science at Texas A&M University as a visiting research scholar. Her research agenda focuses on political party organization and comparative legislative behavior and investigates how the electoral goals of political parties dictate organizational choices. It pays special attention to the way candidates are selected for elections and supervised while in office in order to gain insight into perennial questions of democratic effectiveness and representation. Andrea also has a particular interest in comparing parties across Western and Eastern Europe. She spent several months conducting fieldwork as a Fulbright Scholar in Zagreb, Croatia, in addition to time spent in Brussels, Belgium interviewing members of the European Parliament and their staff.