research

"Parties, Coalitions, and Internal Organization of Legislatures." With Razvan Vlaicu. American Political Science Review. May 2011. 105: 359-380.

“Bicameralism and Government Formation.” With Antonio Merlo and Hulya Eraslan. Quarterly Journal of Political Science. (forthcoming)

“Institutionalism as a Methodology.”  With Keith Krehbiel.  2003.  Journal of Theoretical Politics 15(2):123-144.

“Some Conceptual Issues in Institutionalist Theories of Politics.”  2002.  In Burth, Hans-Peter and Thomas Pluemper, eds.  Jahrbuch fuer Handlungs und Entscheidungs Theorie [Yearbook of Theory of Decision and Action].  Leske+Budrich: 31-56.

"Credibility and Commitment: The Case of Property Rights."  With Joel Ericson, Timothy Frye, and Steve Lewis.  Weimer, David ed.  The Political Economy of Property Rights.  Cambridge UP.  1997.

"Spieltheoretische Modelle in der Theorie der Politik" (Game Theoretic Models in the Theory of Politics) [in German], in Druwe, Ulrich and Volker Kunz (eds.).  Handlungs- und Entscheidungstheorie in der Politikwissenschaft: Eine Einfuehrung in Konzepte und Forschungsstand.  Leske+Budrich.  1996:207-226.

"Rational Choice and the Role of Theory in Political Science."  Critical Review 9(1-2):59-70.  1995.  Reprinted in Friedman, Jeffrey (ed.).  The Rational Choice Controversy : Yale UP.  1996.

“Explanatory Concepts in Formal Political Theory.” Working paper