Working papers

All of these are works in progress, at various stages. In most cases, I am working on updated versions, so please contact me to make sure you have the most recent edition if you want to cite one of these papers. Comments are welcome!

• The Malady of Democratic States: Isolationism in Mid-Century Thinking about Public Opinion. This working paper, co-authored with Katja Kleinberg, was presented to the 2017 annual meeting of the American Political Science Association.

• Partner, Rival, or Something in Between? Politics, Economics, and the Development of U.S. Elite Opinion about China. This working paper, co-authored with Katja Kleinberg, was presented to the 2016 annual meeting of the American Political Science Association.
  

• Economic Interests and Major Power Relations in American Foreign Policy, 1890–1914. This working paper, co-authored with Michael Flynn, is the third concerning U.S. foreign policy before World War I. It was presented at the 2014 APSA meeting.
  

• The Domestic Politics of World Power: Explaining Debates over the United States Battleship Fleet, 1890-91. This paper was my first foray into U.S. foreign policy before World War I. It was presented at the 2010 annual meeting of the International Studies Association. I hope to use some of the ideas it contains in a later paper in collaboration with Michael Flynn, who has worked with me on nearly all aspects of this project.

• What We Don't Know (or Refuse to Say) About Gender and Trade Policy Preferences. This working paper, co-authored with Katja Kleinberg, was presented at the 2012 annual meeting of the International Studies Association.

• From Rivalry to Special Relationship: How to Understand and Forecast Conflict and Cooperation with Legislative Speeches on Anglo-American Relations, 1803-1920. This paper describes a project that Michael Colaresi and I have underway to explore the micro-level processes shaping Anglo-American relations using data drawn from legislative speeches in the U.S. Congress and the British Parliament. It was presented at the 2014 annual meeting of the International Studies Association.