Publications:

"Collaborative Planning in the Context of Deindustrialization: A Qualitative Evaluation of Comparative Cases in Northeast Ohio" 2024. Urban Affairs Review, online first: https://doi.org/10.1177/10780874241243033. With Thomas W. Hilde, Joanna P. Ganning, and Wendy A. Kellogg.

"Collaborating with the Competition? A study of interlocal partnership choices." 2023. Public Administration, 101(2): 640-654. https://doi.org/10.1111/padm.12812

"From Neighbors to Partners: The Adoption of Interlocal Government Collaboration in the United States, 1977-2007." 2021. Administration & Society, 53(5): 708-736. https://doi.org/10.1177/0095399720960483

"Political Consequences of the Endangered Local Watchdog: Newspaper Decline and Mayoral Elections in the United States." 2020. Urban Affairs Review, 56(5): 1327-1356. https://doi.org/10.1177/1078087419838058. With Jay T. Jennings.

"Framing Morality Policy Issues: State Legislative Debates on Abortion Restrictions." 2019. Policy Sciences, 52: 171-189. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11077-018-9336-2. With Gary Mucciaroni and Kathleen Ferraiolo.

"Preventing the Use of Deadly Force: The Relationship between Police Agency Policies and Rates of Officer-Involved Gun Deaths." 2017. Public Administration Review, 77(2): 217-226. DOI: 10.1111/puar.12738. With Jay T. Jennings.

"Local Response to Water Crisis: Explaining Variation in Usage Restrictions during a Texas Drought." 2017. Urban Affairs Review, 53(4): 752-774. DOI: 10.1177/1078087416657199. With Megan Mullin.

"Does Anyone Care About the Poor? The Role of Redistribution in Mayoral Policy Agendas." 2015. State and Local Government Review 47:4: 240-254. With J. Wesley Leckrone, Michelle Atherton, Nicole Crossey, and Andrea Stickley.

"State Agency Discretion in a Delegated Federal Program: Evidence from Drinking Water Investment." 2013. Publius: The Journal of Federalism 44(4): 564-586. With Dorothy M. Daley and Megan Mullin.

"The Role of Local Government Collaboration in Legacy Cities." 2019. Chapter in Legacy Cities: Continuity and Change Amid Decline and Revival, Rosie Tighe and Stephanie Ryberg-Webster (Eds.). University of Pittsburgh Press.

"Annexation and Consolidation." 2016. Chapter in Guide to Urban Politics and Policy, edited by Christine Kelleher Palus and Richardson Dilworth. Thousand Oaks, CA: CQ Press, pp. 245-253.