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(Suggest an Edit or Addition)According to Wikipedia, Thomas L. Brunell is an American political scientist and professor at the University of Texas at Dallas. Brunell studied political science and earned a Ph.D. in 1997 from the University of California, Irvine. His research and teaching mainly focus on American politics - elections, Congress, political parties, and redistricting. In 2008, he published a book entitled Rethinking Redistricting: Why Competitive Elections are Bad for America.
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- Constructing a Supranational Constitution: Dispute Resolution and Governance in the European Community (1998) (373)
- The European Court and the national courts: A statistical analysis of preliminary references, 1961-95 (1998) (120)
- The European Court of Justice, State Noncompliance, and the Politics of Override (2012) (105)
- A Propensity Score Reweighting Approach to Estimating the Partisan Effects of Full Turnout in American Presidential Elections (2004) (97)
- The Relationship Between Political Parties and Interest Groups: Explaining Patterns of PAC Contributions to Candidates for Congress (2005) (88)
- An Integrated Perspective on the Three Potential Sources of Partisan Bias: Malapportionment, Turnout Differences, and the Geographic Distribution of Party Vote Shares (1997) (85)
- Redistricting and Representation: Why Competitive Elections are Bad for America (2008) (71)
- Ideological representation and competitive congressional elections (2009) (64)
- Election administration and perceptions of fair elections (2015) (62)
- The Entrance of Women to the U.S. Congress: The Widow Effect (2003) (57)
- Trustee Courts and the Judicialization of International Regimes (2013) (44)
- Rethinking Redistricting: How Drawing Uncompetitive Districts Eliminates Gerrymanders, Enhances Representation, and Improves Attitudes toward Congress (2006) (44)
- Cycles in American National Electoral Politics, 1854–2006: Statistical Evidence and an Explanatory Model (2008) (42)
- Has the Voting Rights Act Outlived its Usefulness? In a Word, 'No' (2009) (41)
- A New Look at Split-Ticket Outcomes for House and President: The Comparative Midpoints Model (2000) (40)
- Explaining Divided U.S. Senate Delegations, 1788–1996: A Realignment Approach (1998) (39)
- Partisan Politics (2005) (35)
- Why candidate divergence should be expected to be just as great (or even greater) in competitive seats as in non-competitive ones (2010) (29)
- Distinguishing between the effects of swing ratio and bias on outcomes in the US Electoral College, 1900–1992 (1997) (26)
- The Potential Electoral Disadvantages of a Catch-All Party (1999) (26)
- Evaluating the Impact of Redistricting on District Homogeneity, Political Competition, and Political Extremism in the U.S. House of Representatives, 1962-2002 (2005) (24)
- Trustee Courts and the Judicialization of International Regimes: The Politics of Majoritarian Activism in the European Convention on Human Rights, the European Union, and the World Trade Organization (2013) (23)
- The R2=.93: Where then do they Differ? Comparing Liberal and Conservative Interest Group Ratings (1999) (21)
- Lip-Reading, Draft-Dodging, and Perot-Noia (1996) (20)
- The European Court, National Judges, and Legal Integration: A Researcher's Guide to the Data Set on Preliminary References in EC Law, 1958--98 (2000) (19)
- The Power of Ideologically Concentrated Minorities (1999) (16)
- Why Gain in the Senate but Midterm Loss in the House? Evidence from a Natural Experiment (1998) (16)
- Changes in the Location of the Median Voter in theU.S. House of Representatives, 1963–1996 (2001) (15)
- Testing sincere versus strategic split-ticket voting at the aggregate level: Evidence from split house-president outcomes, 1900-2004 (2009) (14)
- Partisan Bias in U.S. Congressional Elections, 1952-1996 (1999) (14)
- How the European Union's Legal System Works and Does Not Work: Response to Carruba, Gabel, and Hankla (2010) (12)
- Modeling the electoral dynamics of party polarization in two-party legislatures (2014) (11)
- Rational Response to Irrational Attitudes: The Level of the Gasoline Tax in the United States (2001) (10)
- Minority Success in Non-Majority Minority Districts: Finding the “Sweet Spot” (2020) (10)
- Descriptive Representation, District Demography, and Attitudes toward Congress Among African Americans (2008) (7)
- Science and politics in the census (2001) (7)
- Factors Affecting the Length of Time a Jury Deliberates: Case Characteristics and Jury Composition (2009) (7)
- Using Statistical Sampling to Estimate the U.S. Population: The Methodological and Political Debate over Census 2000* (2000) (7)
- Who Wants Electoral Competition and Who Wants to Win? (2012) (6)
- Replacement in the U.S. House (2016) (6)
- Death, Where Is Thy Sting? The Senate as a Ponce (de Leon) Scheme (1997) (6)
- The One Person One Vote Standard in Redistricting: The Uses and Abuses of Population Deviations in Legislative Redistricting (2011) (5)
- How Partisanship Affected Public Reaction to Potential Treatments for COVID‐19 (2020) (5)
- Expressive Politics: Issue Strategies of Congressional Challengers (2005) (5)
- Extending section 5 of the voting rights act: The complex interaction between law and politics (2006) (5)
- Components of party polarization in the US House of Representatives (2016) (4)
- The presidential and congressional elections in the USA, November 2008 (2009) (4)
- Why There Is Still a Controversy About Adjusting the Census (2002) (4)
- Special Elections to the U.S. House of Representatives: A General Election Barometer? (2010) (4)
- Move to the Center or Mobilize the Base? Effects of Political Competition, Voter Turnout, and Partisan Loyalties on the Ideological Convergence of Vote-Maximizing Candidates in Two-Party Competition (2006) (3)
- How Do State-Level Environmental Policies Impact the Voting Behavior of National Legislators?* (2018) (3)
- What to Do about Turnout Bias in American Elections: A Response to Wink and Weber (2006) (3)
- Using US Senate Delegations from the Same State as Paired Comparisons: Evidence for a Reagan Realignment (2018) (3)
- Do British Party Politics Exhibit Cycles? (2010) (3)
- The Voting Rights Act After Shelby County v. Holder: A Potential Fix to Revive Section 5 (2015) (2)
- Towards a theory of bicameralism: the neglected contributions of the calculus of consent (2012) (2)
- The 1992 and 1996 Presidential Elections: Whatever Happened to the Republican Electoral College Lock? (1997) (2)
- The Realities of Redistricting: Following the Rules and Limiting Gerrymandering in State Legislative Redistricting . By Jonathan Winburn. Lanham, MD: Lexington Books, 2008. 258p. $65.00. (2009) (2)
- Time to Deliberate: Factors Influencing the Duration of Jury Deliberation (2007) (2)
- Census 2000–Epilogue (2001) (2)
- The volatility of median and supermajoritarian pivots in the U.S. Congress and the effects of party polarization (2016) (2)
- How the European Legal System Works: Override, Non-Compliance, and Majoritarian Activism in International Regimes (2011) (2)
- How Does Winning, Losing, and Electoral Competitiveness Affect Voters' Attitudes Toward Government? Evidence from Three Western Democracies (2012) (2)
- Comparing Liberal and Conservative Interest Group Ratings (2016) (1)
- Making Sense of the Census: It's Political (2000) (1)
- A Divided-Government-Based Explanation for the Decline in Resignations from the US Senate, 1834-1996 (1999) (1)
- Magnitude and durability of electoral change: Identifying critical elections in the U.S. Congress 1854-2010 (2012) (1)
- Do We Still Need the VRA: In a Word "YES." (2007) (0)
- Towards a theory of bicameralism: the neglected contributions of the calculus of consent (2012) (0)
- The Politics of State Gasoline Taxes (1998) (0)
- How the Legal System of the European Union Works-and Does Not Work: Response to Carruba, Gabel, and Hankla (2010) (0)
- Linking Candidate Divergence in the District to Party Polarization in the Legislature: a Three-Factor Model, with Evidence from the U.S. House of Representatives, 1956-2008 (2013) (0)
- Back Matter (2002) (0)
- Do Competitive Districts Necessarily Produce Centrist Politicians (2013) (0)
- Public Policy (1994) (0)
- Divided Senate Delegation Indicator of Realignment (2007) (0)
- Replacement Effects and the Slow Cycle of Ideological Polarization in the U.S. House (2010) (0)
- Barry C. Burden and David C. Kimball, Why Americans Split Their Tickets: Campaigns, Competition, and Divided Government (2004) (0)
- Identifying the “Downsian Ceiling”: When Does Polarization Make Appealing to One’s Base More Attractive than Moderating to the Center (2022) (0)
- Rejoinder to Anderson and Fienberg (2000) (0)
- The volatility of median and supermajoritarian pivots in the U.S. Congress and the effects of party polarization (2016) (0)
- Do British Politics Exhibit Cycles (2008) (0)
- McGann, Anthony J., Charles Anthony Smith, Michael Latner, and Alex Keena. Gerrymandering in America: The House of Representatives, the Supreme Court, and the Future of Popular Sovereignty (2017) (0)
- Evidence for the Irrationality of Governmental Policy - eScholarship (1999) (0)
- Evidence for the Irrationality of Governmental Policy (1998) (0)
- The Impact of Electoral Competitiveness on Voters?s Attitudes Toward Government: Evidence from the US, Great Britain, and Canada (2007) (0)
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