research

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

“Policy Persistence in Multi-Party Parliamentary Democracies.” With Pohan Fong. in Elhanan Helpman, ed. Institutions and Econmic Performance. Harvard University Press. (forthcoming).

“Elections, Governments, and Parliaments in Proportional Representation Systems.”  With David P. Baron.  Quarterly Journal of Economics.  2001.  (August): 933-967.

"Information and Congressional Hearings."  With Timothy J. Feddersen.  American Journal of Political Science.  2000.  44(1):51-65.

"Bicameralism and Its Consequences for the Internal Organization of Legislatures."  With Roger B. Myerson.  American Economic Review.  1999.  89(5):1182-1196.

"Cohesion in Legislatures and the Vote of Confidence Procedure."  With Timothy J. Feddersen.  American Political Science Review.  1998.  92(3):611-621.

“Comparing Constitutions: Cohesion and Distribution in Legislatures."  With Timothy J. Feddersen.  European Economic Review.  1998.  42 (3-5):665-672.

"The Duration of Cabinet Formation Processes in Western Multi-Party Democracies."  With Peter van Roozendaal.  British Journal of Political Science.  1998.  28:609-626.

"Commitment, Deference, and Legislative Institutions."  American Political Science Review 89(2):344-355, 1995.

“Legislative Success.”  With Razvan Vlaicu.  March 2004.  Working paper.

“Cohesion in Legislatures: Procedural and Policy Coalitions.”  With Timothy J. Feddersen.  Mimeo.  June 1995.  Stanford University.  Graduate School of Business.

“Bargaining, Veto Power, and Legislative Committees."  With Roger B. Myerson.  May 1994.  CMSEMS working paper No. 1089.  Northwestern University.