"Ambition and Constraint: The Stabilizing Role of Institutions." Journal of Law, Economics, and Organization 8: 547-560, 1992. (PDF)
"Administrative Procedures, Information, and Agency Discretion: Slack vs. Flexibility." American Journal of Political Science 38: 697-722, 1994. (PDF)
"Money Talks: Deterring Quality Challengers in Congressional Elections." American Political Science Review 89: 295-308, 1995. (PDF)
"A Theory of Strategic Oversight: Congress, Lobbyists, and the Bureaucracy." Journal of Law, Economics and Organization 11: 227-55, 1995. (PDF)
"The Partisan Paradox and the Tariff, 1877-1934." International Organization 50: 301-324, 1996. (PDF)
"Divided Government and the Design of Administrative Procedures: A Formal Model and Empirical Test." Journal of Politics 58: 393-417, 1996. (PDF)
"Do Majority-Minority
Districts Maximize Substantive Black Representation in Congress?"
American Political
Science Review 90: 794-812,
1996. (PDF)
Cited by Supreme Court
in Georgia v. Ashcroft,
123 S.Ct. 2498 (2003). (PDF)
"An Informational Rationale for Committee Gatekeeping Power." Public Choice 91: 271-99, 1997. Winner, Duncan Black Award for Best Paper. (PDF)
"A Comparative Approach to Legislative Organization: Careerism and Seniority in the United States and Japan." American Journal of Political Science 41: 965-88, 1997. (PDF)
"Intra-Party Preferences, Heterogeneity & the Origins of the Modern Congress: Progressive Reformers in the House and Senate, 1890-1920." Journal of Law, Economics & Organization 13: 26-49, 1997. (PDF)
"Uncovering Some Subtleties of the Uncovered Set." Social Choice and Welfare 15: 81-93, 1998. (PDF)
"Partisan and Bipartisan Signaling in Congress." Journal of Law, Economics & Organization 14: 183-204, 1998. (PDF)
"Legislating from Both Sides of the Aisle: Information and the Value of Bipartisan Consensus." Public Choice 101: 1-22, 1999. (PDF)
"Asymmetric Information, Delegation, and the Structure of Policy Making." Journal of Theoretical Politics 11: 37-56, 1999. (PDF)
"The Non-Delegation Doctrine and Separate Powers: A Political Science Approach." The Cardozo Law Review 20 (January): 947-87, 1999. (PDF)
"Measuring the Electoral and Policy Impact of Majority-Minority Voting Districts." American Journal of Political Science 43 (April): 367-95, 1999. (PDF)
"A Social Science Approach to Race, Redistricting, and Representation." American Political Science Review 93 (March): 187-91, 1999. (PDF)
"Legislative Organization Under Separate Powers." Journal of Law, Economics & Organization 17 (October): 373-396, 2001. (PDF)
"Delegation, Comitology, and the Separation of Powers in the European Union." International Organization 56 (Summer): 551-574, 2002. (PDF)