SELECTED PUBLISHED RESEARCH ARTICLES:

	“The Third Level of U.S. Welfare Reform: Governmentality under Neoliberal Paternalism.” with Joe Soss, Linda Houser, and Richard C. Fording. Forthcoming 2010. Citizenship Studies.
	“The Organization of Discipline: From Performance Management to Perversity and Punishment.” with Joe Soss and Richard C. Fording. Forthcoming 2010. Journal of Public Administration Research and Theory.
	“Deciding to Discipline: Race, Choice, and Punishment at the Frontlines of Welfare Reform.” with Joe Soss, Richard C. Fording, and Linda Houser. American Sociological Review, 74, 3 (June 2009): 398-422.
	“The Color of Devolution: Race, Federalism, and the Politics of Social Control.” with Joe Soss and Richard C. Fording. American Journal of Political Science, 52, 3 (2008): 536-53. Online Appendix.
	”Neoliberal Poverty Governance: Race, Place and the Punitive Turn in U.S. Welfare Policy.” with Richard C. Fording and Joe Soss. Cambridge Journal of Regions, Economy and Society, 1, 1 (2008): 17-36.
	“A Public Transformed? Welfare Reform as Policy Feedback.” With Joe Soss. American Political Science Review, 101, 1 (2007).
	“Devolution, Discretion, and the Effect of Local Political Values on TANF Sanctioning.” with Richard C. Fording and Joe Soss. Social Service Review, 81(2007): 285-316.
	“Contextualizing Racial Disparities in American Welfare Reform: Toward a New Poverty Research.” Perspectives on Politics, 3, 2 (June 2005): 253-68.
	“Setting the Terms of Relief: Explaining State Policy Choices in the Devolution Revolution.” with Joe Soss, Thomas Vartanian, and Erin O’Brien. American Journal of Political Science, 45(2001): 378-95.
	“Success Stories: Welfare Reform, Policy Discourse, and the Politics of Research.” with Joe Soss. The Annals of the American Academy of Political and Social Science, 557(September 2001): 49-65.
	“In the Clinic: The Medicalization of Welfare.” Social Text, 62, 18, 1 (Spring 2000): 81-107.
	“The Real Value of Welfare: Why There Is No Welfare Migration.” with Joe Soss. Politics & Society, 27, 1 (1999): 39-66.
	“Already Hit Bottom: General Assistance, Welfare Retrenchment, and Single Male Migration.” with Thomas Vartanian, Joe Soss, and Jim Baumohl. The Journal of Sociology & Social Welfare, 26, 2 (1999): 151-74.
	“Making Something Out of Nothing: Welfare Reform and a New Race to the Bottom.” with Joe Soss. Publius, 28, 3(1998): 67-88.
	“Without Cause or Effect: Reconsidering Welfare Migration as a Policy Problem.” with Lawrence Nitz and Gary Krueger. American Journal of Political Science, 42, 1 (January 1998): 210-30.
	“Welfare Spending and Poverty: More is Less.” The American Journal of Economics and Sociology, 50, 2 (April 1991): 129-42.
	“It's No 'Laffer' Matter: Welfare Spending and Poverty.” with Paul Wilken. The American Journal of Economics and Sociology, 48, 2 (April 1989): 203-218.
	“The Welfare Explosion: Mass Society versus Social Control.” with J. Patrick Turbett. Social Service Review, 57, 4 (December 1983): 614-25.
	“Civil Disorder and the Welfare Explosion: A Two-Step Process.” With J. Patrick Turbett, American Sociological Review, 48, 3 (June 1983): 408-14.

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