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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. I am also developing a
project assessing how inequality shapes political rhethoric and public
opinion in the United States. 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. I also have
research interests in religion and politics,
time series methods, and several smaller projects.
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