Research
My primary academic interests are the development and application of new methodological approaches to questions regarding American political institutions. At present, my research is focused on identifying challenges associated with the use of ideal point estimation across various institutions and improving on inadequacies.
In particular, my recent work has focused on the quality of different sorts of bridge observations, modeling non-observations, and unifying interesting extensions to the IRT ideal point approach with the original spatial voting model.
Any questions regarding research listed on my CV can be sent to my email address.