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My primary research agenda is driven by an interest in the causes and consequences of system-level political and economic change over time.
I am working on several projects related to this research agenda. The first project focuses on
how macro political dynamics influence, and are influenced by, income
inequality. Several articles and a book published by Cambridge University
Press (2009) have been generated from this project. I am currently extending
this work in several directions, including analyses of state-level inequality,
the income shares of the super-rich, and cross-national inequality in Latin
America. The second major project examines over-time change in national policy production. In this work I seek to explain the volume of policy production by Congress, the president, and the Supreme Court. I apply a methodology for combining contemporary and historical data into indexes of legislative, presidential, and judicial policy output that are available from 1789 to the present.
A third project linked to my overarching interest in system-level political change is in its early stages and examines the role of social movements in the American macro political system.
I also have research interests in religion and politics,
time series methods, and several smaller projects.
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