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Parties, Participation, and Representation in America: Old Theories Face New Realities. Originally prepared for Delivery at the 2000 Annual Meeting of the American Political Science Association, Marriott Wardman Park, Washington, DC, August 31-September 3.
Whatever Happened to the Median Voter? Originally prepared for the MIT Conference on Parties and Congress, Cambridge, MA. October 2, 1999.
”Dark
Side of Civic Engagement,” in Civic Engagement in American Democracy,
Theda Skocpol and Morris Fiorina, eds. (Washington, D.C.: Brookings,
1999): 395-425.
Further Evidence of
the Partisan Consequences of Legislative Professionalism American Journal of Political Science, Vol. 43, No. 3. (Jul.,
1999), pp. 974-977.
Professionalism,
Realignment, and Representation The American Political Science Review, Vol. 91, No. 1 (March
1997), pp. 156-162.
Divided Government in the American States: A Byproduct of Legislative Professionalism? The American Political Science Review Vol. 88, No. 2 (March 1994), pp. 304-316.
Is Negative Voting an Artifact? American Journal of Political Science, Vol. 33 No. 2 (May 1989), pp. 423-439 (with Kenneth Shepsle).
The Constituency Service Basis of the Personal Vote for U.S. Representatives and British MPs American Political Science Review Vol. 78, No. 1 (March 1984), pp. 110-125 (with Bruce Cain and John Ferejohn).
Representatives, Roll Calls, and Constituencies (Lexington, MA.: D. C. Heath, 1974).
Congress-Keystone of the Washington Establishment (New Haven: Yale University Press, 1977). Co-winner of the 1977 Washington Monthly Political Book Award. Enlarged second edition, 1989.
Retrospective Voting in American National Elections (New Haven: Yale University Press, 1981).
The Personal Vote: Constituency Service and Electoral Independence (Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1987) (with Bruce Cain and John Ferejohn). Winner of the 1988 Richard F. Fenno Prize.
Home Style and Washington Work (Ann Arbor, MI: University of Michigan Press, 1989) (Edited with David Rohde).
Divided Government (New York: Macmillan, 1992). (2nd ed. Allyn & Bacon, 1996).
The New American Democracy (Needham Heights, MA: Allyn & Bacon, 1998) (with Paul Peterson).
Civic Engagement in American Democracy (Washington, D.C.: Brookings, 1999) (edited with Theda Skocpol).
Continuity and Change in House Elections (Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press, in press) (edited with David Brady and John Cogan).
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