Books
Victor, Jennifer Nicoll, Alexander H. Montgomery, and Mark Lubell, eds. 2017. The Oxford Handbook of Political Networks. Oxford ; New York: Oxford University Press Inc.
Ringe, Nils and Jennifer Nicoll Victor. 2013. Bridging the Information Gap: Legislative Member Organizations in the United States and the European Union. Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press (2013).
Peer-Reviewed Published Articles
Bynion, Timothy, and Jennifer Victor. 2026. “Meeting Students Where They Are: A field experiment of classroom interventions for voter turnout among college students.” Social Science Quarterly. https://doi.org/10.1111/ssqu.70149
Lubell, Mark and Jennifer N. Victor. 2025. “Presidential Powers and the Evolution of Polycentric Governance Systems,” Policy Studies Journal. https://doi.org/10.1111/psj.70069
Victor, Jennifer N. 2025. “Do Network Connections Between Republican and Democratic Members of Congress Encourage Bipartisan Cooperation?” American Politics Research, March, 1532673X251324140. https://doi.org/10.1177/1532673X251324140.
Stein, Robert M., Barry C. Burden, Matt Lamb, Gayle Alberda, Lonna Atkeson, Lisa Bryant, Rachael Cobb, Michael Gilbert, Joshua Hostetter, David C. Kimball, Kenneth Mayer, Costas Panagopoulos, Andrew Reeves, Corwin Smidt, and Jennifer Victor. 2025. “Guardians at the Gates: Poll Worker Retention in a Challenging Election Environment.” Election Law Journal: Rules, Politics, and Policy 24 (1): 62–73. https://doi.org/10.1089/elj.2024.0017.
Victor, Jennifer Nicoll. 2020. “Let’s Be Honest about Election Forecasting.” PS: Political Science & Politics, October, 1–3. https://doi.org/10.1017/S1049096520001432.
Stein, Robert Stein, Christopher Mann, Charles Stewart III, with Zachary Birenbaum, Anson Fung, Jeb Greenberg, Farhan Kawsar, Gayle Alberda, R. Michael Alvarez, Emily Beaulieu, Nathaniel A. Birkhead, Frederick Boehmke, Joshua Boston, Barry C. Burden, Francisco Cantu, Rachael Cobb, David Darmofal, Thomas C. Ellington, Terri Fine, Charles J. Finocchiaro, Michael Gilbert, Victor Haynes, Brian Janssen, David Kimball, Charles Kromkowski, Elena Llaudet, Ken Mayer, Matthew R. Miles, David Miller, Lindsay Nielson, Yu Ouyang, Costas Panagopoulos, Andrew Reeves, Min Hee Seo, Haley Simmons, Corwin Smidt, Rachel VanSickle-Ward, Jennifer Nicoll Victor, Abby Wood, Julie Wronski. “Waiting to Vote in the 2016 Presidential Election: Evidence from a Multi-County Study.” Political Research Quarterly, March, 2019.
Victor, Jennifer Nicoll, and Gina Yannitell Reinhardt. 2016. “Competing for the Platform: How Organized Interests Affect Party Positioning in the United States.” Party Politics, December, 1354068816678888.
Victor, Jennifer Nicoll and Gregory Koger. 2016. “Financing Friends: How Lobbyists Create a Web of Relationships among Members of Congress.” Interest Groups & Advocacy. On-line first 24 May 2016.
Ringe, Nils, Jennifer Nicoll Victor, and Justin H. Gross. 2013. “Keeping Your Friends Close and Your Enemies Closer? Information Networks in Legislative Politics. British Journal of Political Science, 43(3): 601-628.
Victor, Jennifer Nicoll. 2011. “Legislating versus Campaigning: The Legislative Behavior of Higher Office Seekers.” American Politics Research, 39(1): 3-31.
Victor, Jennifer Nicoll and Nils Ringe. 2009. “The Social Utility of Informal Institutions: Caucuses as Networks in the 110th U.S. House of Representatives.” American Politics Research, 37(5): 742-66.
Koger, Gregory and Jennifer Nicoll Victor. 2009. “Polarized Agents: Campaign Contributions by Lobbyists.” PS: Politics & Political Science, 42(3): 485-488.
Victor, Jennifer Nicoll. 2007. “Strategic Lobbying: Demonstrating how Legislative Context Affects Interest Groups’ Lobbying Tactics” American Politics Research, 35(6): 826-845.
Bottom, William P., Gary J. Miller, Cheryl L. Eavey, and Jennifer Nicoll Victor. 2000. “The Institutional Effect on Majority Rule Instability: Bicameralism in Spatial Policy Decisions.” The American Journal of Political Science. 44(3): 523-540.
Book Chapters and Non-Peer Reviewed Publications
Ocampo, Angela, Seth Masket, and Jennifer N. Victor. 2022. “Managing online harassment in the academy,” in Strategies for Navigating Graduate School and Beyond. Kevin G. Lorenz, II, Daniel J. Mallinson, Julia Marin Hellwege, Davin Phoenix, J. Cherie Strachan, eds. American Political Science Association; Washington, DC.
Victor, Jennifer Nicoll. 2019 (forthcoming). “Lobbying Networks,” in The Oxford Handbook of Electoral Persuasion, Elizabeth Suhay, Bernard Grofman, and Alexander Treschel, eds. Oxford University Press: New York.
Victor, Jennifer Nicoll and Elsa T. Khwaja. 2019 (forthcoming). “Network Analysis: Theory and Testing”, in The Sage Handbook of Research Methods in Political Science & IR, Luigi Curini and Robert Franzese, eds. Sage Publications: Thousand Oaks, CA.
Stein, Robert Stein, Christopher Mann, Charles Stewart III, with Zachary Birenbaum, Anson Fung, Jeb Greenberg, Farhan Kawsar, Gayle Alberda, R. Michael Alvarez, Emily Beaulieu, Nathaniel A. Birkhead, Frederick Boehmke, Joshua Boston, Barry C. Burden, Francisco Cantu, Rachael Cobb, David Darmofal, Thomas C. Ellington, Terri Fine, Charles J. Finocchiaro, Michael Gilbert, Victor Haynes, Brian Janssen, David Kimball, Charles Kromkowski, Elena Llaudet, Ken Mayer, Matthew R. Miles, David Miller, Lindsay Nielson, Yu Ouyang, Costas Panagopoulos, Andrew Reeves, Min Hee Seo, Haley Simmons, Corwin Smidt, Rachel VanSickle-Ward, Jennifer Nicoll Victor, Abby Wood, Julie Wronski. (forthcoming) “Polling Place Practices,” in Kathleen Hale and Bridgett A. King, eds. The Future of Election Administration, Palgrave.
Victor, Jennifer Nicoll. 2017. “Unraveling 2016: Comments on Gelman and Azari’s 19 Things.” Statistics and Public Policy 4 (1): 1–3.
Victor, Jennifer Nicoll. 2016. “Campaign Finance and Political Polarization: When Purists Prevail.” The Forum 14 (4).
Ringe, Nils, Jennifer Nicoll Victor, and Wendy Tam Cho. 2016. “Legislative Networks,” in Oxford Handbook of Political Networks, Jennifer Nicoll Victor, Alexander H. Montgomery, and Mark Lubell, eds. Oxford University Press.
Van Thomme, Jack, Ringe, Nils, and Jennifer Nicoll Victor. 2015. “Explaining Reelection: Expertise, Influence, and Intergroups.” In Kaeding, Michael and Niko Switek (eds.): Die Europawahl 2014. Wiesbaden (Germany): Springer VS.
Victor, Jennifer Nicoll. 2012. “Gridlock Lobbying: Breaking, Creating, and Maintaining Legislative Stalemate.” In Interest Group Politics, 8th ed, Allan J. Cigler and Burdett A. Loomis, eds. Washington, DC: CQ Press. Reprinted in Principles and Practice of American Politics: Classic and Contemporary Readings, 6th ed., Samuel Kernell and Steven S. Smith, eds., Washington, DC: CQ Press (2015).
Epstein, Lee, Jeffrey A. Segal, and Jennifer Nicoll Victor. 2002. “Dynamic Agenda Setting on the U.S. Supreme Court: An Empirical Assessment.” Harvard Journal on Legislation, 39(2).
Working Papers
BOOK PROJECT: Root and Branch: The Network Origins of Political Capital in the US Congress [In progress; 90% complete; advance contract with Cambridge University Press.]
Bynion, Tim, and Jennifer Nicoll Victor. “Teaching Research Methods Through Residential Learning Communities” WORKING PAPER.
Victor, Jennifer Nicoll and Molly Izer. “The persistence and proliferation of congressional caucuses.” WORKING PAPER.
Victor, Jennifer Nicoll. “Are connected legislators more effective? Evidence from congressional caucus networks.” WORKING PAPER.
Victor, Jennifer Nicoll. “Are American political parties resilient? A campaign finance analysis of party networks.” WORKING PAPER.
Recent Conference Presentations
“Political Capital: Legislative Power Through Networks,” August 7, 2026, presented at the 19th Political Networks Conference, Manchester, England.
“The Social Capitol: How Legislators Build Political Capital in the US Congress” presented at the American Political Science Association APSA, Vancouver, BC September 2025, and at the Midwest Political Science Association, Chicago Illinios in April 2026
“The Social Capitol: How Legislators Build Political Capital in the US Congress” August 2025, presented at the 18th Political Networks Conference, Cambridge, MA.
“The Barriers to Student Voting,” Bynion, Tim and Jennifer Nicoll Victor, MPSA, Chicago April 2025.
“Member to member campaign contributions as determinants of political capital in the US Congress,” presented at the Money in Politics conference, Copenhagen, Denmark, June 28, 2024; Women in Legislative Studies WiLS, Madison, WI, September 2024; APSA Philadelphia, September 2024.
“Social Capitol: How legislators build political capital in the US Congress,” presented at American Political Science Association, Philadelphia, PA September 2026; Midwest Political Science Association Chicago, Illinios, April 2024.
“Meeting Students Where They Are: A randomized control trial of classroom interventions for voter turnout among college students,” presented at the Students Learn Students Vote Research Workshop, Chicago Illinios, April 2024, and at the Midwest Political Science Association.
“Social Capitol: How legislators create and spend political capital in the US Congress,” presented at the Women in Legislative Politics conference at Brown University, October 26-27, 2023.
“Authority and Influence in the U.S. House of Representatives,” presented at Washington University in St. Louis, June 9, 2023, at a legislative politics conference and celebration of Steven S. Smith.
“Assessing Interventions to Increase Turnout Among Residential College Students: An Experimental Study,” presented at the Annual Meeting of the Midwest Political Science Association, Chicago, ILL, April 13 – 16, 2023, with Tim Bynion and Ashley Jardina.
“Rethinking Congressional Power,” presented at the Annual Meeting of the American Political Science Association, Montrèal, Quebec, September 15 – 18, 2022.
“The Persistence and Proliferation of Congressional Caucuses,” presented at the Annual Meeting of the American Political Science Association, Montrèal, Quebec, September 15 – 18, 2022, and the Annual Meeting of the Midwest Political Science Association, Chicago, ILL, April 13 – 16, 2023, with Molly Izer.
“Connecting Congress: How power, trust, and resilience emerge from legislative networks,” presented at the Midwest Political Science Association Meetings, April 6 – 11, 2022, Chicago, Illinois; also presented in virtual format at the 2022 meetings of Annual Political Networks Workshops and Conference, hosted by the University of Iowa, May – June 2022.
“Are American Political Parties Resilient? A campaign finance analysis of party networks,” presented at the Midwest Political Science Association Meetings, April 6 – 11, 2022, Chicago, Illinois, with Sasha Silva.
“Political Connections: How relationships determine political outcomes,” presented at the14th Annual Political Networks Workshops and Conference, held in virtual format, hosted by Penn State University, June – July 2021.
“Are Networked Legislators better lawmakers?” presented at the Midwest Political Science Association Meetings, held in virtual format, April 2021, and at the American Political Science Association Meetings, held in virtual format, September 9 – 13, 2020.
“Cross-partisan agreement and the limited possibilities of legislative networks in Congress,” presented at the Annual meeting of the American Political Science Association, Washington, DC, August 29 – September 1, 2019
“Do viral political tweets promote discourse or belligerence?” with Eric Vorst, presented at the 12th Annual Political Networks Conference, Duke University, Durham, North Carolina, May 29, June 1 2019.
“Do viral political tweets promote discourse or belligerence?” with Eric Vorst, presented at the 12th Annual Political Networks Conference, Duke University, Durham, North Carolina, May 29, June 1 2019.
“Using Tension to Advance Your Career.” Invited address as Senior Distinguished Scholar at Visions in Methodology, Ohio State University, May 7, 2018.
“Legislative Networks and Partisan Entrenchment,” presented at the Midwest Political Science Association meeting in Chicago, Illinois, April 4-7, 2019, and Political Parties in Comparative Perspective, Villa Le Balze, Florence, Italy, March 22 & 23, 2018; presented at the Midwest Political Science Association meetings in Chicago, Illinois April 7, 2018; presented by invitation at the St. Louis Area Methods Meeting (SLAMM), Iowa State University, Ames, Iowa, April 20, 2018.
“The role of caucuses in partisan entrenchment in Congress,” presented at the 10th Annual Political Networks Conference, Columbus, Ohio, June 16, 2017 [PAPER] [SLIDES]; American Political Science Association Meetings, San Francisco, CA Aug 31 – Sept. 2, 2017. [PAPER] [SLIDES]
“Can Caucuses Alleviate Congressional Polarization?,” with Stephen Haptonstahl and Nils Ringe. Paper presented at the Southern Political Science Association Meeting, San Juan, Puerto Rico, January 7-9, 2016; Midwest Political Science Association Meeting, Chicago, Illinois, April 8-10, 2016; Political Networks Annual Conference and Workshops, St. Louis, Missouri, June 23-25, 2016. [Slides] [Paper]
“(Self)-Organizing the Legislature: Committees, LMOs, and Community Structures in EP and US Congress,” paper presented at the Annual Meeting of the American Political Science Association, San Francisco, CA, Sept. 2-5, 2015. [Slides] [Paper]
“Financing Friends: Legislators, Lobbyists, and the Pervasive Influence of Campaign Finance,” with Gregory Koger. Paper delivered on a panel at the 8th annual Workshops & Conference on Political Networks. Portland State University, Portland, Oregon. June 17-20, 2015. [Slides] [Paper]
“Legislative Member Organizations in a Comparative Perspective: Exploring the Bridging Nature of LMO Ties in Three Parliaments,” with Nils Ringe. Paper delivered on a panel at the meetings of the American Political Science Association, Washington, DC. Aug. 28-31, 2014. [Slides] [Paper]
“(Self)-Organizing the Legislature: Committees, Intergroups, and Community Structures in the European Parliament,” with Nils Ringe. Invited paper presentation at “Political Networks in a Transatlantic Perspective Workshop.” July 14-15, 2014, University of Colorado, Boulder. [Slides] [Paper]
“(Self)-Organizing a Legislature: How lawmakers’ institutions reveal policy preferences and priorities”, with Nils Ringe. Political Networks Conference, McGill University, Montreal, Ontario, Canada. May 29-May 31, 2014 [Slides] [Paper]
“Jane of all Trades, Master of None: The Representational Trade-off of Female Members of Congress.” Presented at the Annual meeting of the Midwest Political Science Association, Chicago, Illinois, April 2-5, 2014. [Slides] [Paper]
“Coordinating the Congress: Explaining Caucus Persistence in the United States House,” with Nils Ringe. Presented at the Annual Meeting of the American Political Science Association, Chicago, Illinois, August 29-September 1, 2013. [Paper] [Presentation Slides]
“Multiplex Legislative Networks and the Power of Caucuses to Alleviate Partisan Polarization,” with Stephen Haptonstahl and Nils Ringe. Presented at the 6th Annual Political Networks Conference, Bloomington, Illinois (Indiana University), June 27-29, 2013. [Paper] [Presentation Slides]
“Solving Congressional Partisan Polarization one Caucus at a Time,” with Nils Ringe (University of Wisconsin, Madison). Presented at the Midwest Political Science Association Meetings, Chicago, Ill, April 10-14, 2013. [Paper] [Presentation Slides]
“Competing for the Platform: The Politics of Interest Group Influence on Political Party Platforms,” with Gina Yannitell Reinhardt (Texas A&M University). Presented at the 2013 Southern Political Science Association Meetings in Orlando, Florida, January 3-6, 2013 [Paper] & Meetings of the American Political Science Association, New Orleans, LA. Aug, 30 – Sept. 2, 2012 (conference canceled due to hurricane) [Paper]
“Second Street Gangs: Ad Hoc Policy Commissions in the Senate,” with Kristen Coopie Allen, Ian Palmer Cook, and Zachary Auter (University of Pittsburgh). Presented at the 2013 Southern Political Science Association Meetings in Orlando, Florida, January 3-6, 2013 [Paper] [Presentation Slides] & Midwest Political Science Association Meetings, Chicago, IL April 10-14, 2013 [Presentation Slides] & 6th Annual Political Networks Conference, Bloomington, Illinois (Indiana University), June 27-29, 2013. [Paper] [Presentation Slides]
“Bridging the Information Gap: Legislative Member Organizations in the US & EU.” Presented with Nils Ringe at the 2012 Political Networks Conference in Boulder, Colorado, June13-16, 2012. [Presentation Slides]
“The Friendly Legislator: How Social Connections Affect Legislative Voting in the European Parliament.” Presented with Nils Ringe at the 2012 Meetings of the Midwest Political Science Association, Chicago, IL, April 12-15, 2012 & 2012 Meetings of the American Political Science Association, New Orleans, LA. Aug, 30 – Sept. 2, 2012 (conference canceled due to hurricane) [Paper]
“Networking the House: Caucuses in the U.S. House of Representatives.” Presented at the Political Networks Conference, Duke University (May 19-22, 2010), the Political Networks Conference, University of Michigan (June 17-19, 2011) [Paper] [Presentation Slides], and the American Political Science Assoc. Meetings, Seattle, WA (September 1-4, 2011). [Paper] [Presentation Slides]
“The Agreement Score: Legislative Networks and Ideology.” A working paper with Seth Masket (University of Denver), Betsy Sinclair (University of Chicago), and Gregory Koger (University of Miami). Presented at the Midwest Political Science Association Meetings, Chicago, IL (April 18-21, 2010), the American Political Science Association Meetings, Washington, DC (September 2-5, 2010) and the American Political Science Association Meetings, Seattle, WA (September 1-4, 2011). [Paper] [Presentation Slides]
“Show Me the Money: Political Ambition, Specialization, and PAC Donations,” with Alex Morin (Texas A&M University, graduate student). Presented at the Midwest Political Science Association Meetings, Chicago, IL (April 18-21, 2010). [Paper]
“Ted Kennedy, Orin Hatch, and other Strange Bedfellows: A Network Analysis of Legislative Voting,” with Gregory Koger (University of Miami). Presented at the Visions in Methodology Conference, March 18-20, 2010, University of Iowa. [Paper] [Presentation Slides]
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