Journal Articles

Miller, David R., Joshua McCrain, Hans J.G. Hassell, and Benjamin C.K Egerod. Forthcoming. “Partisanship, Expertise, or Connections? A Conjoint Survey Experiment on Lobbyist Hiring Decisions.” Journal of Law, Economics, and Organization.

Miller, David R. and Serena D. Smith. Forthcoming. “(Small D-Democratic) Vacation, All I Ever Wanted?: The Effect of Democratic Backsliding on Leisure Travel in the American States.” Journal of Experimental Political Science.

Miller, David R. and Jeffrey Ziegler. Forthcoming. “Preferential Abstention in Conjoint Experiments.” Research & Politics.

Miller, David R. and Chris Piper. 2024. “Acting(s) Without Consequence: The (Lack of) Public Costs for Vacancy Appointments.” Presidential Studies Quarterly, 52(4): 144-161

Boston, Joshua, Benjamin Kassow, Ali Masood, and David R. Miller. 2023. “Your Honor’s Misdeeds: The Consequences of Judicial Scandal on Specific and Diffuse Support.” PS: Political Science & Politics, 56(2):195-200.

Miller, David Ryan. 2023. “The President Will See Whom Now? Presidential Engagement with Organized Interests.” American Political Science Review, 117(3): 1019-1035.

Butler, Daniel M. and David R. Miller. 2022. “Does Lobbying Affect Bill Advancement? Evidence from Three State Legislatures.” Political Research Quarterly, 75(3):547-561.

Ladam, Christina, Austin Bussing, Alexander C. Furnas, Josh McCrain, David R. Miller, and Rachel Porter. 2022. “The Junior Americanist Workshop Series (JAWS).” PS: Political Science & Politics, 55(3):552-553.

Miller, David R. 2022. “On Whose Door to Knock? Lobbyists’ Strategic Pursuit of Access to Members of Congress.” Legislative Studies Quarterly, 47(1), 157-192.

Miller, David R. and Andrew Reeves. 2022. “Pass the Buck or the Buck Stops Here? The Effectiveness of Claiming and Deflecting Blame by Elected Executives.” Journal of Public Policy, 42(1), 63-91.

Miller, David R. 2021 “Empirical Approaches to the Study of Access.” Interest Groups & Advocacy, 10(3), 286-302.

Stein, Robert M., Christopher Mann, Charles Stewart III, \(\ldots\), David Miller, \(\ldots\), et al. 2020. “Waiting to Vote in the 2016 Presidential Election: Evidence from a Multi-county Study.” Political Research Quarterly, 73(2), 439-453.

Mann, Christopher B., Gayle A. Alberda, Nathaniel A. Birkhead, \(\ldots\), David Miller, \(\ldots\), et al. 2018. “Pedagogical Value of Polling Place Observation By Students.” PS: Political Science & Politics, 51(4), 831-837.

Miller, David R. and Andrew Reeves. 2017. “Attitudes toward Delegation to Presidential Commissions.” Presidential Studies Quarterly, 47(3), 495-516.

Other Academic Publications

Stein, Robert M., Christopher Mann, Charles Stewart III, \(\ldots\), David Miller, \(\ldots\), et al. 2020. “Polling Place Quality and Access.” In The Future of Election Administration, Mitchell Brown, Kathleen Hale, and Bridgett A. King, Eds. Palgrave Macmillan, 83-100.

Reeves, Andrew, David R. Miller, and Bryant Moy. 2018. “U.S. Presidential Campaigns and Their Impact.” In Oxford Bibliographies in Political Science.

Working Papers

Egerod, Benjamin C.K., Hans J.G. Hassell, Josh McCrain, and David R. Miller. “Lobbying Against Discrimination: Racial and Gender Discrimination in Lobbyist Hiring Decisions. Invited to revise and resubmit at Legislative Studies Quarterly.

Egerod, Benjamin C.K., Hans J.G. Hassell, Josh McCrain, and David R. Miller. “Using Expert Evaluation to Scale Interest Group Ideology.”

Miller, David Ryan and Daniel M. Butler. “The Implications of Loper Bright for Bureaucratic Human Capital.”

Public Scholarship

“Democracy and Destinations: Navigating Political Consumerism in American Vacation Choices.” CloudResearch. February 23, 2024.

“Backslide on democracy and tourists will punish you.” 3Streams. September 5, 2023.

“Judging the judges: Scandals have the potential to affect the legitimacy of judges—and possibly the federal judiciary, too” (with Joshua Boston, Benjamin Kassow, and Ali Masood). The Conversation. June 2, 2023

“Biden’s Supreme Court commission probably won’t sway public opinion” (with Andrew Reeves). The Conversation. June 16, 2021

“New evidence that lobbying affects legislative outcomes.” 3Streams. May 30, 2021

“Here’s the evidence lobbyists are trying to persuade your member of Congress.” 3Streams. February 2, 2021

“If Trump Took Responsibility for Coronavirus Missteps, It Might Actually Help Him” (with Andrew Reeves). The Washington Post. March 26, 2020.

“Late to the Party (Nomination): How Primary Election Timing Disadvantages Missouri Voters.” In APSA’s RAISE the Vote Campaign. January 17, 2020.