“Research is formalized curiosity. It is poking and prying with a purpose. It is a seeking that [s]he who wishes may know the cosmic secrets of the world and they that dwell therein.”
--Zora Neale Hurston

The Politics of Personal Crisis: How Life Disruptions Shape Political Participation

Political Behavior. 2024.

Legal Aid and Social Policy: Managing a Political Economy of Scarcity

ANNALS of the American Academy of Political and Social Science 706 (1): 137-158. 2023.

Policy Feedback in the Pandemic: Lessons from Three Key Policies

Roosevelt Institute. 2023.

Racism, Power, and Health Equity: The Case of Tenant Organizing

Health Affairs 42 (10): 1318-1325. 2023.

Introduction: Administrative Burden as a Mechanism of Inequality in Policy Implementation
(with Pamela Herd, Hilary Hoynes, and Donald Moynihan)

Russell Sage Journal of the Social Sciences 9 (5): 1-29. 2023.

Racism and Health: Three Core Principles

The Milbank Quarterly 101 (S1): 333-355. 2023.

Journal of Health Politics, Policy and Law 48 (2): 157-185. 2023.

Entrenching Inequity, Eroding Democracy: State Preemption of Local Housing Policies

‘It’s Like Night and Day:’ How Bureaucratic Encounters Vary Across WIC, SNAP, & Medicaid
(with Carolyn Barnes and Emily Raines)

Social Service Review 97(1):1-40. 2023.

Health Justice Through the Lens of Power
Journal of Law, Medicine, and Ethics 50 (4):656-662. 2022.

The US Medicaid Program: Coverage, Financing, Reforms, and Implications for Health Equity
(with Julie M. Donohue, Evan S. Cole, Cara V. James, Marian Jarlenski, and Eric T. Roberts)

JAMA 328 (11): 1085-1099. 2022.

Race, Power, and Policy: Understanding State Anti-Eviction Policies During COVID-19

Policy & Society 41 (2): 231-246. 2022.

Civil Justice, Local Organizations, and Democracy

Columbia Law Review 122 (5): 1389-1422. 2022.

Information from Same-Race/Ethnicity Experts Online Does Not Increase Vaccine Interest or Intention to Vaccinate
(with Shana Kushner, Gadarian, Sara Wallace Goodman, Brendan Nyhan, Thomas B. Pepinsky)
The Milbank Quarterly 100(2): 492-503

The Milbank Quarterly 100 (2): 1-12. 2022.

American Federalism, Political Inequality, and Democratic Erosion
(with Jacob M. Grumbach)

ANNALS of the American Academy of Political and Social Science 699 (1): 143-155. 2022.

Politics, Power, and Precarity: How Tenant Organizations Transform Local Political Life
(with Mallory SoRelle)

Interest Groups & Advocacy 11 (2): 209-236. 2022.

A Racial Equity Framework for Assessing Health Policy

The Commonwealth Fund. 2022.

From the Margins to the Center: A Bottom Up Approach to Welfare State Scholarship
(with Chloe Thurston and Mallory SoRelle)

Perspectives on Politics 20 (1): 154-169. 2022.

Racism, Health, and Politics: Advancing Interdisciplinary Knowledge
(with Alana M.W. LeBrón)

Journal of Health Politics, Policy and Law. 2022.

Politics, Pandemic, and Racial Justice Through the Lens of Medicaid

American Journal of Public Health. 2021.

The Affordable Care Act and Polarization in the United States
(with Julianna Pacheco and Jake Haselswerdt)

Russell Sage Journal of the Social Sciences 6 (2): 114-130. 2020.

Race, Politics, and the Affordable Care Act

Journal of Health Politics, Policy and Law 45 (4): 547-566. 2020.

What’s Policy Got to Do with It? Race, Gender and Economic Inequality in the United States
(with Margaret Brower)

Daedalus 149 (1): 100-118. 2020.

Power From the Margins: Grassroots Mobilization and Urban Expansions of
Civil Legal Rights

Urban Affairs Review 56 (5): 1390-1422. 2020.

Policy Feedback in a Racialized Polity

Policy Studies Journal 47 (2): 423-450. 2019.

Medicaid and the Policy Feedback Foundations for Universal Healthcare

ANNALS of the American Academy of Political and Social Science 685 (1): 116-134. 2019.

Disenrolled: Retrenchment and Voting in Health Policy
(with Jake Haselswerdt)

Journal of Health Politics, Policy and Law 44 (3): 423-454. 2019.

Social Class as Racialized Political Experience

The Forum 15(1): 93–110. 2017.

People, Places, Power: Medicaid Policy Concentration and Local Political Participation

Journal of Health Politics, Policy and Law 42(5): 865–900. 2017.

Race, Poverty and the Redistribution of Voting Rights

Journal of Poverty and Public Policy 8(2): 106–128. 2016.

Neighborhood Disorder and Local Participation:
Examining the Political Relevance of ‘Broken Windows’

Political Behavior 35(4): 777–806. 2013.

“Research is formalized curiosity. It is poking and prying with a purpose. It is a seeking that [s]he who wishes may know the cosmic secrets of the world and they that dwell therein.”
Zora Neale Hurston

Politics, Power, and Precarity: How Tenant Organizations Transform Local Political Life

Interest Groups & Advocacy. 2022.

A Racial Equity Framework for Assessing Health Policy

The Commonwealth Fund. 2022.

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From the Margins to the Center: A Bottom Up Approach to Welfare State Scholarship
(with Chloe Thurston and Mallory SoRelle)

Perspectives on Politics 20 (1): 154-169. 2022.

Racism, Health, and Politics: Advancing Interdisciplinary Knowledge
(with Alana M.W. LeBrón)

Journal of Health Politics, Policy and Law. 2021.

Politics, Pandemic, and Racial Justice Through the Lens of Medicaid

American Journal of Public Health. 2021.

The Affordable Care Act and Polarization in the United States
(with Julianna Pacheco and Jake Haselswerdt)

Russell Sage Journal of the Social Sciences 6 (2): 114-130. 2020.

Race, Politics, and the Affordable Care Act

Journal of Health Politics, Policy and Law 45 (4): 547-566. 2020.

What’s Policy Got to Do with It? Race, Gender and Economic Inequality in the United States
(with Margaret Brower)

Daedalus 149 (1): 100-118. 2020.

Power From the Margins: Grassroots Mobilization and Urban Expansions of Civil Legal Rights

Urban Affairs Review 56 (5): 1390-1422. 2020.

Policy Feedback in a Racialized Polity

Policy Studies Journal 47 (2): 423-450. 2019.

Medicaid and the Policy Feedback Foundations for Universal Healthcare.

ANNALS of the American Academy of Political and Social Sciences 685 (1): 116-134. 2019.

Disenrolled: Retrenchment and Voting in Health Policy (with Jake Haselswerdt).

Journal of Health Politics, Policy and Law 44 (3): 423-454. 2019.

Social Class as Racialized Political Experience

The Forum 15(1): 93–110. 2017.

People, Places, Power: Medicaid Policy Concentration and Local Political Participation

Journal of Health Politics, Policy and Law 42(5): 865–900. 2017.

Race, Poverty and the Redistribution of Voting Rights

Journal of Poverty and Public Policy 8(2): 106–128. 2016.

Neighborhood Disorder and Local Participation: Examining the Political Relevance of ‘Broken Windows’

Political Behavior 35(4): 777–806. 2013.

“Research is formalized curiosity. It is poking and prying with a purpose. It is a seeking that [s]he who wishes may know the cosmic secrets of the world and they that dwell therein.” ​ --Zora Neale Hurston

Political Behavior. 2024.

The Milbank Quarterly 101 (S1): 333-355. 2023.

The US Medicaid Program: Coverage, Financing, Reforms, and Implications for Health Equity (with Julie M. Donohue, Evan S. Cole, Cara V. James, Marian Jarlenski, and Eric T. Roberts)

Information from Same-Race/Ethnicity Experts Online Does Not Increase Vaccine Interest or Intention to Vaccinate (with Shana Kushner, Gadarian, Sara Wallace Goodman, Brendan Nyhan, Thomas B. Pepinsky) The Milbank Quarterly 100(2): 492-503

Disenrolled: Retrenchment and Voting in Health Policy (with Jake Haselswerdt)

“Research is formalized curiosity. It is poking and prying with a purpose. It is a seeking that [s]he who wishes may know the cosmic secrets of the world and they that dwell therein.” ​ Zora Neale Hurston

From the Margins to the Center: A Bottom Up Approach to Welfare State Scholarship (with Chloe Thurston and Mallory SoRelle)

​Medicaid and the Policy Feedback Foundations for Universal Healthcare.

Disenrolled: Retrenchment and Voting in Health Policy (with Jake Haselswerdt).

“Research is formalized curiosity. It is poking and prying with a purpose. It is a seeking that [s]he who wishes may know the cosmic secrets of the world and they that dwell therein.”
--Zora Neale Hurston

The US Medicaid Program: Coverage, Financing, Reforms, and Implications for Health Equity
(with Julie M. Donohue, Evan S. Cole, Cara V. James, Marian Jarlenski, and Eric T. Roberts)

Information from Same-Race/Ethnicity Experts Online Does Not Increase Vaccine Interest or Intention to Vaccinate
(with Shana Kushner, Gadarian, Sara Wallace Goodman, Brendan Nyhan, Thomas B. Pepinsky)
The Milbank Quarterly 100(2): 492-503

Disenrolled: Retrenchment and Voting in Health Policy
(with Jake Haselswerdt)

“Research is formalized curiosity. It is poking and prying with a purpose. It is a seeking that [s]he who wishes may know the cosmic secrets of the world and they that dwell therein.”
Zora Neale Hurston

From the Margins to the Center: A Bottom Up Approach to Welfare State Scholarship
(with Chloe Thurston and Mallory SoRelle)

Medicaid and the Policy Feedback Foundations for Universal Healthcare.