Publications
Books
2006. Structuring the State: The Formation of Italy and Germany and the Puzzle of Federalism
(Princeton: Princeton University Press)

Some Book Reviews of Structuring the State
Foreign Affairs
Perspectives on Politics
World Politics
Comparative Political Studies
Governance
Sueddeutsche Zeitung
Rivista Italiana di Scienza Politica (A Symposium with Three Critics and Author's Response)
Journal Articles
2009. “Shaping Democratic Practice and the Causes of Electoral Fraud: Theory and Evidence from Pre-1914 Germany”
American Political Science Review, (Forthcoming).
2008. “Does Landholding Inequality Block Democratization? A Test of the "Bread and Democracy" Thesis and the Case of Prussia?”
World Politics, 60: 4 (July).
2008. “Why Some Cities Provide More Public Goods Than Others: A Subnational Comparison of German Cities in 1912”
Studies in Comparative International Development, 43: 3/4.
2006. “How Did Europe Democratize?”
World Politics, vol. 58, n. 2.
2006. “Il Perché dell’Assenza di Federalismo in Italia: Una Prospettiva Storica Comparata”
(“Why is there no Federalism in Italy? A Comparative Historical Perspective”) Rivista Italiana di Scienza Politica, n 2 (August).
2006. “Does Decentralization Make Government More Efficient and Effective?”
(With Conor O’Dwyer)  Journal of Commonwealth and Comparative Politics 44 (3).
2006. “Honecker's Revenge: The Enduring Legacy of German Unification in the 2005 Election"
(With Jeffrey Kopstein) German Politics and Society 24 (1). 
2004. “Rethinking Federalism’s Origins: Puzzle, Theory, and Evidence from Nineteenth Century Europe”
World Politics (October).
2002. “Recasting German Federalism? The New Politics of Fiscal Decentralization in Post-Unification Germany”
Politische Vierteljahresschrift 43: 4 (December).
1998. “The Adaptation of Ex-Communist Parties to Post-Communist East Central Europe: A Comparative Study of the Hungarian and East German Ex-Communist Parties,”
Communist and Post-Communist Studies, 31: 2 (June).
1998. “Putting Humpty Dumpty Back Together Again: Communism’s Collapse and the Reconstruction of the East German Ex-Communist Party”
German Politics and Society 16: 1 (Spring).
Book Chapters and Other Writings
2006. “Of Course Generalize, But How? Returning to Middle Range Theory in Comparative Politics”
(Forum on Middle Range Theory) American Political Science Association-Comparative Politics Newsletter, Vol. 17, No. 2.
2006. “Angie! Angie! The Transformation of German Politics After Merkel’s Election”
"Aus(sen)sichten der DAAD-Wahlbeobachter im September 2005" (Berlin: German Academic Exchange Service).
2002. “Doomed to be Radicals?  Organization, Ideology, and Communist Successor Parties in Post-Communist East Central Europe”
(with Nick Biziouras) in Andras Bozoki and John Ishiyama (eds.) The Communist Successor Parties in Central and Eastern Europe (New York: ME Sharpe, Inc).
1999.  “The Ideological Metamorphsis of Former Communist Parties: Lessons from East Central Europe”
John Ishiyama (ed.) Communist Successor Parties in Comparative Perspective (New York: Nova Press).
Book Reviews
2006. Herbert Obinger et  al. (eds) Federalism and the Welfare State
Perspectives on Politics, Volume 4).
2006. Kathleen O’Neill, Decentralizing the State: Elections, Parties, and Local Power in the Andes.
Perspectives on Politics, Volume 4.
2005. Jonathan Rodden and Gunnar Eskeland (eds), Fiscal Decentralization and the Challenge of Hard Budget Constraints.
Governance, v. 18 n 3 (2005).
1998. Charles Maier, Dissolution: The Crisis of Communism and the End of East Germany. 
APSA-Comparative Politics Section Newsletter (1998), American Political Science Association, Washington DC.
1998. Gero Neugebauer and Richard Stoess, Die PDS. Geschichte, Organisation, Waehler, Konkurrenten, Opladen: Leske und Budrich
German Politics and Society 15: 2 (1998).