Selected publications:
Nathan T. Barron, Peter T. McLaughlin, Rachel Blum, B. Henry Ashton, Charles J. Finocchiaro, and Michael H. Crespin. 2026. “Presidential Endorsements as Voter Cues: Evidence from the 2022 Midterm Elections.” Political Behavior 48: 1075-1098. View
Peter T. McLaughlin, Peter Olson, Nathan T. Barron, B. Henry Ashton, Rachel Blum, Charles J. Finocchiaro, and Michael H. Crespin. 2025. “Ends Versus Means: Public Support for Congressional Redistricting.” Election Law Journal 24: 287-301. View / Postprint
David Darmofal, Charles J. Finocchiaro, and Indridi H. Indridason. 2025. “Roll-Call Voting Under Random Seating Assignment.” Political Science Research and Methods 13: 76-95. View
Charles J. Finocchiaro and Scott A. MacKenzie. 2024. “Grist for the Hill: How Constituency Demand and Committee Service Influence Legislators’ Attention to Issues.” Journal of Politics 86: 1541-1556. View
Peter T. McLaughlin, Charles J. Finocchiaro, and Michael H. Crespin. 2024. “Strategic States: The Congressional Roots of Federal Grant Applications.” State Politics & Policy Quarterly 24: 389-412. View
Matthew J. Geras, Sarina Rhinehart, H. Benjamin Ashton, and Charles J. Finocchiaro. 2024. “‘All in the Family?’: Assessing the Impact of Child Gender on Congressional Behavior.” Politics, Groups, and Identities 12: 1193-1203. View
Robert M. Stein, et al. 2020. “Waiting to Vote in the 2016 Presidential Election: Evidence from a Multi-county Study.” Political Research Quarterly 73: 439-453. View
Charles J. Finocchiaro and Scott A. MacKenzie. 2018. “Making Washington Work: Legislative Entrepreneurship and the Personal Vote from the Gilded Age to the Great Depression.” American Journal of Political Science 62: 113-131. View
Charles J. Finocchiaro and Jeffery A. Jenkins. 2016. “Distributive Politics, the Electoral Connection, and the Antebellum U.S. Congress: The Case of Military Service Pensions.” Journal of Theoretical Politics 28: 192-224. View
Selected working papers:
Peter T. McLaughlin, Joy Rhodes, Nathan T. Barron, B. Henry Ashton, Rachel Blum, Charles J. Finocchiaro, and Michael H. Crespin. “Experimental Evidence on the Effects of Campaign Funds for Childcare.”
Charles J. Finocchiaro. “The Public Buildings Boom: Distributive and Partisan Politics in Congress.”
Charles J. Finocchiaro and Scott A. MacKenzie. “Clearing the Desks: Constituency Demand, Committee Service, and Bill Sponsorship in the U.S. Senate.”
