He specializes in the American electoral process and teaches a wide variety of courses including Congress, Political Parties, Campaigns and Elections and Social Science Research Methods. He is co-editor of Dangerous Democracy? The Battle Over Ballot Initiatives in America and co-author of The Partys Just Begun: Shaping Political Parties for Americas Future, second edition. He also is a survey analyst for Fairleigh Dickinson Universitys PublicMind, the University polling institute. He joined FDU in 1999.