His teaching interests include state and local government, campaigns and elections, legislative politics, and political philosophy. Michael is the lead author of the book State Voting Laws in America: Historical Statutes and Their Contemporary Interpretations (Palgrave Pivot: 2014), co-authored by Docking Policy Fellow Chapman Rackaway, and Dr. Kevin Anderson. Michael has also published another book, Bring Representation Home: State Legislators Among Their Constituencies (Missouri: 2003), articles in PS: Political Science and Politics, Perspectives on Politics, and other journals, plus numerous book chapters. Michael writes a newspaper column as part of the Insight Kansas group and appears regularly on KAKE’s This Week in Kansas.