Working primarily in the fields of American politics and political methodology, he has published articles in the American Political Science Review, American Journal of Political Science, Journal of Politics, Political Analysis, World Politics, and Studies in American Political Development. His honors include the APSA State Politics Section Best Journal Article Award, the Warren Miller Prize for best article published in Political Analysis, and the Walter Dean Burnham Award for best dissertation in the field of Politics and History. His book The Unsolid South, which examines within-party competition and congressional representation in the one-party American South, is forthcoming with Princeton University Press.