Journal Articles

n.d. "Presidential Agenda-Setting of Traditional and Nontraditional News Media." Political Communication Article

2014. "Presidential Leadership of Television and Newspaper Coverage through Press Conferences." Journal of Political Science. Article

2014. “The Tone of Spanish-language Presidential News coverage.” Social Science Quarterly.  Article

2014. “The President on Spanish-Language Television News.” Social Science Quarterly (with Christine Balarezo).   Article

2014. “Presidential and Media Leadership of Public Opinion on Iraq.” Foreign Policy Analysis (with Chris Linebarger).   Article

 2013. “Presidential Leadership of the News Media: The Case of the Press Conference.” Political Communication 30: 548-564.  Article

2013. “The Politics of Presidential Press Conferences.” American Politics Research 41: 470-496.  Article

2013. “Presidential Position Taking and the Puzzle of Representation.” Presidential Studies Quarterly 43: 1-15 (with Brandon Rottinghaus).  Article

2011. “Presidential Speeches and the Stages of the Legislative Process.” Congress and the Presidency 38: 301-321 (with Tom Miles).  Article

2011. “On the Relationship between Public Opinion and Decision Making in the US Courts of Appeals.” Political Research Quarterly 64: 736-48 (with Bryan Calvin and Paul M. Collins).  Article

2010. “The Importance of Policy Scope to Presidential Success in Congress.” Presidential Studies Quarterly 40: 708-724.  Article

2010. “How Policy Conditions the Impact of Presidential Speeches on Legislative Success.” Social Science Quarterly 91: 415-35.  Article  

2010. “The Tone of Local Presidential News Coverage.” Political Communication 27: 121-140.   Article

2010. “The Politics of Presidential Speeches.” Congress and the Presidency 37: 1-21. Article 

2009. “Presidential Campaigning in Midterm Elections.” American Review of Politics 30: 35-50 (with  Sean Nicholson-Crotty).  Article

2008-2009. “George W. Bush’s Domestic Policy Agenda.”  American Review of Politics 29: 351-69 (with Tom Miles). [Invited]  Article

2008.  “Local Newspaper Coverage of President George W. Bush.” Presidential Studies Quarterly 38: 609-30 (with Jeffrey S. Peake). [Invited]  Article

2008. “Local Newspaper Coverage of the Presidency.” International Journal of Press/Politics 13: 103-119.  Article

2008. “The Agenda-Setting Impact of Major Presidential TV Addresses.” Political Communication 25: 113-137 (with Jeffrey S. Peake). Article

2008. “The Impact of Presidential Speeches on the Bureaucracy.” Social Science Quarterly 89: 116-132.  Article

2007. “Presidential Success on the Substance of Legislation.” Political Research Quarterly 60: 100-112 (with Andrew Barrett).  Article

2006.  “The Contemporary Presidency: ‘Going Local’ to Reform Social Security.” Presidential Studies Quarterly 36: 689-704 (with Jeffrey S. Peake). Article

2006.  “The Conditioning Influence of Policy Salience and Complexity on American Political Institutions.” Policy Studies Journal 34: 223-43. Article

2005. “Presidential Signaling in a Market Economy.” Presidential Studies Quarterly 35: 718-35. Article

2005. “The Politics of Presidential Agendas.” Political Research Quarterly 58: 257-68.  Article

2005.  “Presidents and the Economic Agenda.” Political Research Quarterly 58: 127-38 (with Jeffrey S. Peake). Article

2004. “Presidential Influence over the Systemic Agenda.” Congress and the Presidency 31: 181-201 (with Jeffrey S. Peake).  Article

2003. “U.S. Presidents, the Foreign Policy Agenda, and U.S.-East Asian Relations.” Korean Journal of Public Policy 14: 139-161, (with Jeffrey S. Peake). [Editor reviewed] Article 

2003. “Presidential Press Conferences over Time.” American Journal of Political Science 47: 348-353. Article

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