Campaign Finance

Citizen’s United, Independent Expenditures, and Agency Costs: Reexamining the Political Economy of State Antitakeover Statutes
Co-author Timothy Werner. Conference on Empirical Legal Studies (2013)
Assessing the Potential Effects of Citizens United: Policy and Corporate Governance in the States
Co-author Timothy Werner. Paper prepared for delivery at the Public Choice Society 50th Anniversary Conference (2013)
Assessing the Potential Effects of Citizens United: Evidence from the States
Co-author Timothy Werner. Paper prepared for delivery at the annual meeting of the American Political Science Association (2012)
Citizens United and Political Outcomes
Analysis of differences in election and policy outcomes in states that allowed and disallowed business campaign involvement prior to the Supreme Court’s decision in Citizens United (February 2010)
Pay to Play: Parties, Interests, and Money in Federal Elections
Co-author David C. W. Parker. In The Medium and the Message: Television Advertising and American Elections, eds. Kenneth Goldstein and Patricia Strach (Englewood Cliffs, NJ: Prentice Hall, 2004).

The Benefits of Campaign Spending
Cato Institute Briefing Paper No. 84, September 2003. Wall Street Journal editorial

The Distribution of Campaign Spending Benefits Across Groups
Journal of Politics 63, 3 (2001): 916-34.
Congressional Campaign Spending and the Quality of Democracy
Journal of Politics 62, 3 (2000): 757-89. With Paul F. Manna.
Institutional Incentives for Protection: The American use of Voluntary Export Restraints
With David B. Yoffie. Proceeding the Academy of Political Science 37, 4 (1990): 137- 150

Slides and Media

Citizens United: The Future of Campaign Finance and Political Speech
Madison Federalist Society, October 12, 2010. Co-panelist with Bradley Smith, Lester Pines. Video and audio. (Event information)

Outside ads, messy as they are, give voters substance
Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, Mark 23, 2008

Who Says Money Corrupts Campaigns?
Wisconsin State Journal, October 8, 2006.