Campaign Reform: Insights and Evidence. 1998. Report of the Task Force on Campaign Reform funded by the Pew Charitable Trusts. I was one of 14 scholars who wrote this report.
Op-ed essay on campaign spending, Tennessean, February 20, 2007
Nasty, brutish and short, LA Times Op-ed piece, April 23, 2006
“Tennessee Law Denies Governor the Power to Lead” an editorial in the Tennessean, July 9, 2002.
“Can’t Candidates Get Along? Luckily, No” an editorial in USAToday, March 12, 2000.
“Clinton Should Thank Polls” an editorial by a variety of newspapers, including The San Jose Mercury Times and The Cincinnati Inquirer, February 1999.
“Polls and Politicians” an editorial published by The Cincinnati Inquirer, The San Diego Union-Tribune, The Arizona Daily Star,Buffalo News, Austin American-Statesman, Los Angeles Daily News, and St Petersburg Times during September 1996.
“William Jennings Bryan on the Yellow Brick Road.” 1993. Journal of American Culture 16(4):59-63 (with Thomas R. Rochon).
Book review of Martin P. Wattenberg's The Rise of Candidate Centered Politics. 1992. Public Opinion Quarterly 56(3):383-4.
“In Primaries, Power to the People” Editorial for Chicago Tribune, February 7th, 1992, p.15.