American Government
Parties and Electoral Behavior
Public Opinion
Political Psychology
Electoral Systems
Statistical Methods for Political Analysis

Research Fellow, Stanford Institute for the Quantitative Study of Society

Undergraduate Courses
Statistical Methods II and III
Doing Political Science

Graduate Courses
Statistical Methods II and III
Topics in American Political Behavior
Topics in Statistical Modeling

Articles

A24. with Matt Levendusky and Jeremy Pope.‘‘Measuring District Preferences with
Implications for the Study of U.S. Elections’’ Journal of Politics. 2008. V70(3) :736-
753.

A23. with Shawn Treier. ‘‘Democracy as a Latent Variable’’. American Journal of
Political Science. 2008. V52(1): 201-217.

A22. with Paul M. Sniderman. ‘‘The Limits of Deliberative Discussion: A Model of
Everyday Political Argument’’ Journal of Politics. 2006. V68(2): 272-283.

A21. ‘‘Pooling the Polls Over An Election Campaign’’. Australian Journal of Political
Science. 2005. 40(4):499-517.

A20. with Joshua Clinton and Doug Rivers. ‘‘ ‘The Most Liberal Senator’? Analyzing
and Interpreting Congressional Roll Calls’’ PS: Political Science and Politics. 2004.
37(4):805-811. Reprinted in David A. Rochefort (ed.) 2005. Quantitative Methods in
Practice: Readings from PS. CQ Press: Washington, DC. pp:104-117.

A19. ‘‘What Do We Learn from Graduate Admissions Committees?: A Multiple-Rater,
Latent Variable Model, with Incomplete Discrete and Continuous Indicators.’’ Political
Analysis. 2004. 12(4): 400-424.

A18. with Joshua Clinton and Doug Rivers. ‘‘The Statistical Analysis of Roll Call Data.’’
American Political Science Review. 2004. 98(2):355-370.

A17. ‘‘Bayesian Analysis for Political Research’’ Annual Reviews of Political Science.
2004. 7:483-505.

A16. with D. Sunshine Hillygus. ‘‘Voter Decision-Making in Election 2000: Campaign
Effects, Partisan Activation, and the Clinton Legacy’’ American Journal of Political
Science. 2003. 47(4):583-596.

A15. ‘‘Multidimensional Analysis of Roll Call Data via Bayesian Simulation: Identification,
Estimation, Inference and Model Checking’’ 2001. Political Analysis.
9(3):227-241.

A14. ‘‘Estimation and Inference are ‘Missing Data’ Problems: Unifying Social Science
Statistics via Bayesian Simulation.’’ 2000. Political Analysis. 8(4):307--332.

A13. ‘‘Estimation and Inference via Bayesian Simulation: an introduction to Markov
Chain Monte Carlo.’’ 2000. American Journal of Political Science. 44(2):375-404.

A12. ‘‘Non-Compulsory Voting in Australia?: what surveys can (and can’t) tell us.’’
1999. Electoral Studies. 18(1):29-48.

A11. ‘‘Correcting Surveys for Non-Response and Measurement Error using Auxiliary
Information.’’ 1999. Electoral Studies. 18:7-28.

A10. ‘‘Pauline Hanson, the Mainstream, and Political Elites: the place of race in
Australian political ideology.’’ Australian Journal of Political Science. 1998. 33:167-
186.

A9. with Neal Beck. ‘‘Beyond Linearity By Default: Generalized Additive Models.’’
American Journal of Political Science. 1998. 42:596-627.

A8. ‘‘Some More of All That: a Reply to Charnock.’’ Australian Journal of Political
Science. 1995. 30:347-55.

A7. with Gary Marks. ‘‘Forecasting Australian Elections: 1993 And All That.’’ Australian
Journal of Political Science. 1994. 29:277-91.

A6. with Bruce Western. ‘‘Bayesian Inference for Comparative Research.’’ American
Political Science Review. 1994. 88(2):412-23.

A5. ‘‘Measuring Electoral Bias: Australia, 1949-1993.’’ British Journal of Political
Science. 1994. 24:319-57.

A4. ‘‘Split Parties Finish Last: Preferences, Pluralities and the 1957 Queensland
election.’’ Australian Journal of Political Science. 1992. 27:434-48.

A3. with Francis Vella. ‘‘Electoral Redistricting and Endogenous Partisan Control.’’
Political Analysis. 1991. 3:155-71.

A2. with Richard G. Niemi. ‘‘Bias and Responsiveness in State Legislative Districting.’’
Legislative Studies Quarterly. 1991. 16(2):183-202.

A1. with Richard G. Niemi and Laura R. Winsky. ‘‘Candidacies and Competitiveness in
Multimember Districts.’’ Legislative Studies Quarterly. 1991. 16(1):91-110.