Methods

“Ecological Inference from Goodman to King,” [6.4 mb] Historical Methods 34 (2001), 100-126.

"The State of Social Science History in the Late 1980s," [257 kb]  Historical Methods 22 (1989), 13-20.

"Expert Witnesses, Rational Choice, and the Search for Intent,"  Constitutional Commentary, 5 (1988), 349-73.  Reprinted in Jack N. Rakove, ed., Interpreting the Constitution:  The Debate Over Original Intent (Boston:  Northeastern univ. Press, 1990), 313-35.

“Specification or Speculation? A Note on Flanigan and Zingale,” [595 kb] Social Science History, 10 (1986), 71-84.

“The Revivalism of Narrative: A Response to Recent Criticisms of Quantitative History,” [3.1 mb]  Social Science History, 8 (1984), 133-49.

“Log-Linear Analysis of Contingency Tables: An Introduction for Historians” [1622 kb] (with Gary W. Cox and David W. Galenson), Historical Methods, 15 (1982), 152-69.

"History QUASSHed, 1957-1980,"  American Behavioral Scientist, 23 (1980), 885-904.

"Quantitative Social Scientific History," in Michael Kammen, ed., The Past Before Us:  Contemporary Historical Writing in the U.S.  (Ithaca:  Cornell Ulniversity Press, 1980), 433-56.

"The Agenda for 'Social Science History,'"[507 kb] Social Science History, 1 (1977), 383-91.

“The `New Political History': A Methodological Critique,”[807 kb] Reviews in American History, 4 (March 1976), 1-14.

“Ecological Regression and the Analysis of Past Politics,” [1 mb] The Journal of  Interdisciplinary History, 4:2 (Autumn 1973), 237-262.

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