All of these papers are in Adobe PDF format.

• The Eye of the TIGER: The Politics of Recovery Act Transportation Spending. Presented at the 2020 Southern Political Science Association conference, January 2020. A slide presentation associated with the paper is available here.

• Group Decision-Making in Open Source Development: Putting Condorcet's Method in Practice. Presented at the 2017 Georgia Political Science Association conference, November 2017. A previous version was presented at the 2013 Southern Political Science Association conference, January 2013.

• Partisanship, Political Knowledge, and Changing Economic Conditions. Based on research previously presented at the 2010 American Political Science Association conference, September 2010; the 2011 Western Political Science Association conference, April 2011; and the 2011 European Political Science Association conference, June 2011. A (slightly outdated) slide presentation associated with this paper is available here.

• The Truth is Never Black and White: The Persistence of Race-Related Interviewer Effects in Today's South, with Scott H. Huffmon (Winthrop University) and Adolphus G. Belk, Jr. (Winthrop). Previously presented at the 2010 Midwest Political Science Association conference, April 2010; a slide presentation associated with this paper is available here.

• Accounting for the “Known Unknowns”: Incorporating Uncertainty in Second-Stage Estimation. Based on a poster presented at the 2007 Meeting of the Society of Political Methodology.

• Geographic Data Visualization Using Open-Source Data and R. Poster presented at the 2009 Midwest Political Science Association Conference, April 2009.

• Reforming Research Methods at a Minority-Serving Institution, with Lynne L. Manganaro (TAMIU) and Marcus Ynalvez (TAMIU). Presented at the 2009 APSA Teaching and Learning Conference, February 2009.

• Return to Normalcy? Recent Elections in New Orleans. Presented at the 2008 Midwest Political Science Association Conference, April 2008.

• Textbook Methodology: Undergraduate Research Methods as Depicted in Textbooks. Presented at the 2008 APSA Teaching and Learning Conference, February 2008.

• Should Voters Be Encyclopedias? Measuring Political Knowledge in the United States and the Netherlands. Revised version of a paper presented at MPSA in April 2007 (further revised from the version presented at SPSA in January 2007); presentations based on this research are available in PDF handout and slideshow form.

• Of Shirking, Outliers, and Statistical Artifacts: Lame-Duck Legislators and Support for Impeachment (updated as of 16 March 2006). A briefer version of this paper appeared as a research note in Political Research Quarterly in 2007 (see above).
  A previous version of the paper, as presented at APSA and SPSA, looking at the impeachment question more broadly is here.

• Estimating Cross-Over Voting in the 2005 Jackson, Miss. Democratic Mayoral Primary via Ecological Inference; paper presented at the 2006 SPSA conference.

• Political Sophistication and Conditional Strategic Behavior in U.S. Presidential Elections; paper presented at the 2005 SPSA Conference.
  Also available: the PDF slides from my April 2006 PARISS presentation at Duke in handout and slideshow form.

• Iraq, 9/11, and the War; paper presented at the 2004 MPSA Conference.

• Rock & Roll Will Never Die?: A discussion of the seeming failure of Rock The Vote, with Scott H. Huffmon (Winthrop University) and Bobbi Gentry (formerly at Winthrop, now a Ph.D. student at the CUNY Graduate Center); paper presented at the 2003 APSA conference.

• Heuristics, Hillary Clinton, and Health Care Reform, with Harvey D. Palmer (formerly at the University of Mississippi, now at SUNY Buffalo); paper presented at the 2002 Annual National Conference of the Midwest Political Science Association. Data used is from the 1994 National Election Study.

• Redundant Arrays of IDE Drives, with David A. Sanders and a host of other physicists at the University of Mississippi. Paper presented at the 2001 IEEE Nuclear Science Symposium and Medical Imaging Conference. Supported by U.S. Department of Energy grants DE-FG05-91ER40622 and DE-AC02-76CH03000.

• Deference or Dissent? Congress Responds to U.S. v. Eichman; paper presented at the 2001 SPSA Conference.

• The Evolution of the Normal Vote in the 1990s; paper presented at the 2001 WPSA Conference. (Data is from the NES.)

• Regime Stability and Presidential Government: A Preliminary Analysis, with Jennifer Hayes (now at the University of Houston); paper presented at the 2000 SPSA Conference.

• Beyond the Crossroads: Memphis at the Threshold of Non-Racial Politics?; paper presented at the 2000 MWPSA Conference.