Publications

Books
Polling to Govern: Public Opinion and Presidential Leadership. Stanford: Stanford University Press,

In the Public Domain: Presidents and the Challenge of Public Leadership. Albany: State University of New York Press, SUNY Series on the Presidency: Contemporary Issues, 2005. Co-Edited with Lori Cox Han.  

Articles
"One for All: Using Focus Groups and Opinion Polls in the George H. W. Bush White House." Congress and the Presidency 30, no. 1 (2003): 81-94.

"Footwear, Lipstick and an Orthodox Sabbath: Media Coverage of Non Traditional Candidates." White House Studies 1, no. 3 (2001): 335-47.

"Polling for a Defense: The White House Public Opinion Apparatus and the Clinton Impeachment." Presidential Studies Quarterly 30, no. 4 (2000): 783-90.

"Staffing the White House Public Opinion Apparatus: 1969-1988." Public Opinion Quarterly 62 (1998): 165-89.

"Harry and Louise Go to Washington: Political Advertising and Health Care Reform." The Journal of Health Politics, Policy and Law 21 (1996): 35-68. Co-authored with Darrell M. West and Chris Goodwin.

Chapters
“Presidential Uses of Public Opinion Polling.” In Polling America: An Encyclopedia of Public Opinion, edited by Benjamin Radcliff and Samuel Best. Westport: Greenwood Press, 2005.

“The Media and Public Opinion.” In The Encyclopedia of Public Opinion, edited by John Geer. ABC-Clio, 2004.

“Interest Groups and Public Opinion.” In The Encyclopedia of Public Opinion, edited by John Geer ABC-Clio, 2004.

"Continuing to Campaign: Public Opinion and the White House." In Polls, Politics and the Dilemmas of Democracy, edited by Michael Genovese and Matthew Streb, 55-68. Albany: State University of New York Press, 2004.

Selected Topics, (Clinton Rossiter, Mount Vernon, Monticello, Executive Office Building, Blair House), In The Encyclopedia of the American Presidency, edited by Michael Genovese, Facts-on-File, 2004.

"The Lipstick Watch: Media Coverage, Gender and Presidential Campaigns." In Anticipating Madam President: The First Female Presidency, edited by Robert Watson and C. Ann Gordon, 123-130. New York: Lynne Rienner, 2002.

“The Call for Conferences Going Unanswered at the Regional Level: An Examination.” Presidency Research Group Report, Fall 2001: 8-10.

"Presidential Polling and the Potential for Leadership." In Presidential Power: Forging the Presidency for the 21st Century, edited by Lawrence  Jacobs, Martha Kumar and Robert Shapiro, 380-407. New York: Columbia University Press, 2000.