Research

Forthcoming (available by request)

“Domestic Policy Prioritization in the Obama Administration: An Initial Look at Barack Obama’s Political Project.” In Evaluating the Obama Presidency: From Transformational Goals to Governing Realities, edited by Meena Bose and Paul Fritz. Berlin: De Gruyter.

Invited to Revise and Resubmit (available by request)

“The Self-Assertive Executive: Presidential Agenda Construction as Political Agency” at Presidential Studies Quarterly

Working papers (available by request)

“Congressional Expectations of Presidential Self-Restraint” with John A. Dearborn
“The President's Publics: Societal Constructions and Policy Resonance”

In Progress

“Institutional Interests and the American Presidency”
“‘It Will Drop Off the Screen Quickly’: The Unresolved Social Politics of the 1990s”
"Overreach, Not Outreach: Presidential Ambition as an Institutional Motivation"
“The President’s First Moves: The Dynamics of Agenda Construction, 1968-2022” (dissertation project)
“Revisiting the Signing Statement”
“Self-Restraint and the American Founding”