Environmental Regulation and Policy
“Understanding Excess Emissions from Industrial Facilities: Evidence from Texas,” Environmental Science & Technology vol. 52 no.5 (2018): 2482-2490 (with Nikos Zirogiannis and Alex J. Hollingsworth).
“Environmental Federalism and the Trump Presidency: A Preliminary Assessment,” Publius: The Journal of Federalism vol. 48 no. 3 (2018): 345-371 (with Neal Woods).
“Gone with the Wind: Federalism and the Strategic Placement of Air Polluters,” American Journal of Political Science vol. 61 no. 2 (2017) : 257-270 (with Jamie Monogan and Neal Woods).
“Environmental Policy,” In Politics in the American States, 11th ed. Virginia Gray, Russell L. Hanson, and Thad Kousser, eds. Washington, DC: CQ Press, pp. 451-477 (2018) (with Neal Woods)
“Environmental Policy, Federalism, and the Obama Presidency,” Publius: The Journal of Federalism vol. 46 no. 3 (2016), pp. 366-391 (with Neal Woods).
“When Governments Regulate Governments,” American Journal of Political Science vol. 60 no. 3 (2016), pp. 559-574 (with Manny Teodoro).
“Environmental Policy,” In Guide to State Politics and Policy, Dick Niemi and Josh Dyck, eds. Washington, DC: CQ Press (2014), pp.383-393.
“Environmental Free Riding in State Water Pollution Enforcement,” State Politics & Policy Quarterly vol. 12, no. 3 (2012), pp. 227-252 (with Neal Woods).
“Measuring State Environmental Policy,” Review of Policy Research vol. 29, no. 4 (2012), pp. 544-569 (with Neal Woods).
“Environmental Policy,” In Politics in the American States, 10th ed. Virginia Gray, Russell L. Hanson, and Thad Kousser, eds. Washington, DC: CQ Press (2012), pp. 469-500 (with Neal Woods).
“Exporting Air Pollution? Regulatory Enforcement and Environmental Free Riding in the United States,” Political Research Quarterly vol. 63, no. 4 (2010), pp. 771-782 (with Neal Woods).
“Assessing U.S. State Susceptibility to Environmental Regulatory Competition,” State Politics and Policy Quarterly vol. 9, no. 4 (2009), pp. 404-428.
“You Get What You Pay For: Environmental Policy and Public Health,” Publius: The Journal of Federalism vol. 39, no. 1 (2009), pp. 95-116 (with Neal Woods and Ann Bowman).
“Regulator Attitudes and the Environmental Race to the Bottom Argument,” Journal of Public Administration Research and Theory vol. 18, no. 2 (2008), pp. 321-344.
“Regulatory Competition and Environmental Enforcement: Is There a Race to the Bottom?” American Journal of Political Science vol. 51, no. 4 (2007), pp. 853-872.
“Local Institutions and Environmental Outcomes: Evidence from Wetlands Protection in Massachusetts,” Policy Studies Journal vol. 35, no. 3 (2007), pp. 481-502 (with Steve Meyer).
“Adopting Local Environmental Institutions: Environmental Need and Economic Constraints,” Political Research Quarterly vol. 60, no. 1 (2007), pp. 3-16 (with Steve Meyer).
Environmental Justice
“Racial, Ethnic, and Income Disparities in Air Pollution: A Study of Excess Emissions in Texas,” PLOS ONE, https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0220696 (August 2, 2019) (with Zhengyan Li and Nikos Zirogiannis).
“Regulatory Enforcement, Riskscapes, and Environmental Justice,” Policy Studies Journal vol. 46 no. 1 (2018): 7-36 (with Chris Reenock).
“Environmental Justice,” In Environmental Governance Reconsidered: Challenges, Choices, and Opportunities, 2nd ed., Robert F. Durant, Daniel J. Fiorino, and Rosemary, O’Leary, eds. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, in press.
“Environmental Justice Delayed: Failed Promises, but Some Hope for the Future,” Environment: Science and Policy for Sustainable Development vol. 58 no. 2 (2016), pp. 4-15.
“Compliance Bias and Environmental (In)Justice,” The Journal of Politics vol. 75, no. 2 (2013), pp. 506-519 (with Chris Reenock). [Received Pi Sigma Alpha Best Paper Award for paper presented at the 2012 Southern Political Science Association conference.]
“Examining Environmental Justice in Facility-Level Regulatory Enforcement,” Social Science Quarterly vol. 91, no. 3 (2010), pp. 835-855 (with Tyler Schario).
“The Limited Effects of Federal Environmental Justice Policy on State Enforcement,” Policy Studies Journal vol. 37, no. 3 (2009), pp. 475-496.
“Inequities in Enforcement? Environmental Justice and Government Performance,” Journal of Policy Analysis and Management vol. 28, no. 1 (2009), pp. 102-121.
Public Opinion on Energy and the Environment</strong
“Are all Electrons the Same? Evaluating Support for Local Transmission Lines through a Survey Experiment,” PLOS ONE, https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0219066 (July 17, 2019) (with Sanya Carley and , Stephen Ansolabehere).
“Environmental Attitudes across Race and Ethnicity,” Social Science Quarterly vol. 100 no. 4 (2019): 1039-1055 (with Adam McBride Lazri).
“The Greening of Christianity? A Study of Environmental Attitudes Over Time,” Environmental Politics vol. 27 no. 2 (2018): 267-291. [Supplementary Materials]
“Extreme Weather Exposure and Support for Climate Adaptation,” Global Environmental Change 46 (2017): 104-113 (with Llewelyn Hughes, Charlie Kaylor, and Aaron Ray).
“Extreme Weather Events and Climate Change Concern,” Climatic Change vol. 134 no. 4 (2016), pp. 533-547 (with Llewelyn Hughes and Charles H. Kaylor).
“The Role of Religion in Environmental Attitudes,” Social Science Quarterly vol. 96 no. 5 (2015), pp. 1244-1263 (with Matt Arbuckle).
“The American Public’s Energy Choice,” Daedalus vol. 141, no. 2 (2012), pp. 61-71 (with Steve Ansolabehere).
“Public Preferences for Environmental Policy Responsibility,” Publius: The Journal of Federalism vol. 41, no. 1 (2010), pp. 76-100.
“Public Attitudes toward Construction of New Power Plants,” Public Opinion Quarterly vol. 73, no. 3 (2009), pp. 566-577 (with Steve Ansolabehere).
“Environmental Policy Attitudes: Issues, Geographical Scale, and Political Trust,” Social Science Quarterly vol. 89, no. 5 (2008), pp. 1066-1085 (with Jeff Milyo and Lilliard Richardson).
“Bureaucratic and Public Attitudes toward Environmental Regulation and the Economy,” State and Local Government Review vol. 40, no. 3 (2008), pp. 139-149.
U.S. Energy Transition
“A Framework for Evaluating Geographic Disparities in Energy Transition Vulnerability,” Nature Energy vol. 3 (2018): 621-627 (with Sanya Carley, Tom P. Evans, and Michelle Graff).
“Adaptation, Culture, and the Energy Transition in American Coal Country,” Energy Research and Social Science vol. 37 (2018), pp. 133-139 (with Sanya Carley, Tom P. Evans).
“Stakeholder Perceptions of the U.S. Energy Transition: Local-Level Dynamics and Community Responses to the National Politics and Policy,” Energy Research and Social Science vol. 343 (2018): 144-157.
Other Articles
“The Killing of Cecil the Lion as an Impetus for Policy Change,” (with Stefan Carpenter), Oryx, in press.
“The State of American Federalism 2018-2019: Litigation, Partisan Polarization, and the Administrative Presidency,” Publius: The Journal of Federalism vol. 49 no. 3 (2019), pp. 379-406 (with Greg Goelzhauser).
“Personal and Collective Evaluations of the 2010 Health Care Reform,” Journal of Health Politics, Policy and Law vol. 38, no. 5 (2013), pp. 921-956 (with Lilliard Richardson.)
“Case Selection in Public Management Research: Problems and Solutions,” Journal of Public Administration Research and Theory vol. 23, no. 2 (2013), pp. 361-393 (with Chris Reenock).
“Penalizing the Party: Health Care Reform Issue Voting in the 2010 Election,” American Politics Research vol. 40. no. 5 (2012), pp. 903-926 (with Lilliard Richardson).
“Public Approval of U.S. State Legislatures,” Legislative Studies Quarterly vol. 37, no. 1 (2012), pp. 99-116 (with Jeff Milyo and Lilliard Richardson).
“The Effects of Uncontested Elections on Legislator Performance,” Legislative Studies Quarterly vol. 36, no. 2 (2011), pp. 199-229 (with Michiko Ueda).
“The Introduction of Voter Registration and its Effect on Turnout,” Political Analysis vol. 14, no. 1 (2006), pp. 83-100 (with Steve Ansolabehere).
“Innovations in Public Participation and Environmental Planning: Examples from the Great Lakes Region,” Society and Natural Resources vol. 14, no. 9 (2001), pp. 815-826 (with Tom Beierle).
“What are We Gaining from Public Participation? Observations from Environmental Planning in the Great Lakes,” Environment and Planning C: Government and Policy vol. 19, no. 4 (2001), pp. 515-527 (with Tom Beierle).
“Over a Decade of Comparative Risk Analysis: A Review of the Human Health Rankings,” Risk: Health, Safety & Environment vol. 12, no. 1/2 (2001), pp. 41-58.
“Values, Conflict, and Trust in Participatory Environmental Planning.” Journal of Policy Analysis and Management vol. 19, no. 4 (2000), pp. 587-602 (with Tom Beierle).