I’m a Professor of Political Science and Public Administration at the University of North Florida in Jacksonville. I hold a PhD in Political Science from the State University of New York at Buffalo, and I’m an expert in American government & politics, with particular expertise in public law, redistricting and gerrymandering, and election administration.
Here’s a link to my Faculty Bio.
My research examines the nexus between law and politics in the United States. My research agenda is broad and varied, and addresses such diverse topics as redistricting, direct democracy, campaign finance, judicial politics, fair housing policy, and election administration. My published writings in peer-reviewed academic journals, academic presses, and in popular nonfiction all examine how law and politics in the United States exist in an unusual symbiotic relationship not found in most advanced industrialized democracies. Not only can we characterize the law in the U.S. as being unusually political, but we can also observe that the politics is unusually legal. My research seeks to shed additional light on this anomaly, and by so doing gain greater understanding how law and politics in the U.S. intersect and affect one another.
