My most recent book, Small Power: How Local Parties Shape Elections (with David Doherty and Michael G. Miller, Oxford University Press, 2022), examines the role of local party organizations in elections in the United States. Using a combination of survey, experimental, and qualitative (in-person interviews with nearly 30 local party chairs) data, the manuscript establishes that local party chairs can affect representation, polarization, and competition in various ways.
Articles Related to Small Power
Doherty, David, Conor M. Dowling, and Michael G. Miller. 2019. “Do Local Party Chairs Think Women and Minority Candidates Can Win? Evidence from a Conjoint Experiment.” Journal of Politics 81(4): 1282-1297.
Doherty, David, Conor M. Dowling, and Michael G. Miller. 2021. “The Conditional Effect of Local Party Organization Activity on Federal Election Outcomes.” Journal of Elections, Public Opinion and Parties 31(3): 368-387.
My first book, Super PAC! Money, Elections and Voters After Citizens United (with Michael G. Miller, Routledge, 2014), through the use of campaign finance data, election returns, advertising archives, and public opinion surveys, provided one of the first examinations of the effect of the Supreme Court’s Citizen United decision on electoral politics in the United States.
My second book, Unhealthy Politics: The Battle over Evidence-Based Medicine (with Eric M. Patashnik and Alan S. Gerber, Princeton University Press, 2017), draws on public opinion surveys, physician surveys, and case studies to explain how political incentives, polarization, and the misuse of professional authority have undermined efforts to tackle the medical evidence problem and curb wasteful spending. Unhealthy Politics received the Don K. Price Book Award from the American Political Science Association and the Louis Brownlow Book Award from the National Academy of Public Administration.