Publications

2025 Democracy-Reinforcing Hardball: Can Breaking Democratic Norms Preserve Democratic Values? David Alexander Bateman · Comparative Political Studies · Scholar only 11 2023 Deeper Roots: Historical Causal Inference and the Legacy of Slavery David Alexander Bateman · Journal of Historical Political Economy 9 2023 Gilded Age Doughfaces: Northern Democrats and Black Civil Rights David Alexander Bateman · Journal of Historical Political Economy · Scholar only 3 2023 Race and historical political economy David Alexander Bateman · The Oxford Handbook of Historical Political Economy 37 2023 The South in American Political Development David Alexander Bateman · Annual Review of Political Science 9 2023 The Sovereign People and the Liberal Democratic State David Alexander Bateman · When the People Rule 1 2022 Judicial Power and the Shifting Purpose of Article V David Alexander Bateman · Studies in American Political Development 4 2022 Review of Congress and the First Civil Rights Era, 1861-1918 by Jeffrey A. Jenkins and Justin Peck. David Alexander Bateman · Political Science Quarterly 0 2022 Review of The Senate: From White Supremacy to Governmental Gridlock by Daniel Wirls. David Alexander Bateman · Congress & the Presidency 1 2021 Elections, Polarization, and Democratic Resilience David Alexander Bateman · Democratic Resilience 6 2021 Party Politics and American Racial Orders: Review Essay of Keneisha Grant, The Great Migration and the Democratic Party, Boris Heersink and Jeffery A. Jenkins, Republican Party Politics and the American South, 1865-1968, and Nathan P. Kalmoe, With Ballots and Bullets. David Alexander Bateman · The Journal of Politics 0 2021 Robert Lieberman, Kenneth Roberts, and David Bateman on Democratic Resilience and Political Polarization in the United States. David Alexander Bateman · Democracy Paradox Podcast — 2021 The Right of Instruction and Representation in American Legislatures, 1778 to 1900. By Peverill Squire. Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 2021. 216p. $80.00 cloth. David Alexander Bateman · Perspectives on Politics · Scholar only — 2021 Voter suppression started way before Jim Crow. It’s a longstanding American tradition. David Alexander Bateman · Washington Post. The Monkey Cage — 2020 Congress in Quarantine, the People in the Streets. David Alexander Bateman · Divided We Fall — 2020 Democracy’s Discontents: Review Essay of James Fishkin, Democracy When the People are Thinking: Revitalizing our Politics through Public Deliberation, Sanford Levinson and Jack M. Balkin, Democracy and Dysfunction, Keith Bybee, How Civility Works, and Jeffery K. Tulis and Nicole Mellow, Legacies of Losing in American Politics. David Alexander Bateman · Tulsa Law Review — 2020 Podcast Interview on Disenfranchising Democracy, with Susan Liebell David Alexander Bateman · New Books in Political Science — 2020 Response to Bullock et al.’s review of Southern Nation: Congress and White Supremacy after Reconstruction David Alexander Bateman · Perspectives on Politics · Scholar only — 2020 Review of From Oligarchy to Republicanism: The Great Task of Reconstruction, by Forrest Nabors. David Alexander Bateman · Perspectives on Politics 0 2020 Review of The South and the Transformation of US Politics, by Charles S. Bullock III, Susan A. MacManus, Jeremy D. Mayer, and Mark J. Rozell” and a critical dialogue with the authors. David Alexander Bateman · Perspectives on Politics · needs review — 2020 The South and the Transformation of US Politics. By Bullock, Charles S., MacManus, Susan A., Mayer, Jeremy D., and Rozell, Mark J. New York: Oxford University Press, 2019. 208 … David Alexander Bateman · Perspectives on Politics · Scholar only · needs review — 2020 The South and the Transformation of U.S. Politics. By Charles S. Bullock, Susan A. MacManus, Jeremy D. Mayer, and Mark J. Rozell. New York: Oxford University Press, 2019. 208p. $99.00 cloth, $26.95 paper. David Alexander Bateman · Perspectives on Politics · Scholar only · needs review — 2019 A developmental approach to historical causal inference David Alexander Bateman · Public Choice 46 2019 Partisan Polarization on Black Suffrage, 1785-1868 David Alexander Bateman · Perspectives on Politics 16 2019 The Comparative Turn in American Politics. David Alexander Bateman · Comparative Politics Newsletter — 2019 Transatlantic Anxieties: Democracy and Diversity in Nineteenth-Century Discourse David Alexander Bateman · Studies in American Political Development 8 2018 Disenfranchising Democracy: Constructing the Electorate in the United States, United Kingdom, and France David Alexander Bateman · Cambridge University Press 130 2018 How Southern politicians defended white supremacy — and made the South poorer David Alexander Bateman · Washington Post. The Monkey Cage — 2018 Majority Tyranny: Review Essay of Anna Harvey, A Mere Machine: The Supreme Court, Congress, and American Democracy and Louis Fisher, Congress: Protecting Individual Rights. David Alexander Bateman · Tulsa Law Review · needs review — 2018 Southern Nation: Congress and White Supremacy after Reconstruction David Alexander Bateman · Princeton University Press · needs review 136 2018 Southern Nation: INTRODUCTION; 1 Southern Politics; 2 Southern Lawmaking; PART II. UNION RESTORED; 3 Uncertain Combinations; 4 Tests of Priority; 5 Racial Rule; PART III … David Alexander Bateman · Princeton University Press · Scholar only · needs review — 2017 A house divided? political conflict and polarization in the us congress, 1877-2011 David Alexander Bateman · American Journal of Political Science · Scholar only 5 2017 A House Divided? Roll Calls, Polarization, and Policy Differences in the US House, 1877-2011 David Alexander Bateman · American Journal of Political Science 73 2017 Majority Tyranny David Alexander Bateman · Tulsa L. Rev · Scholar only 1 2017 Review of Building an American Empire: The Age of Territorial Expansion, by Paul Frymer. David Alexander Bateman · The Journal of Politics 0 2017 Standing on the Shoulders of Keith Poole. David Alexander Bateman · The Legislative Scholar — 2016 An Inherent Tension within Populist Politics. David Alexander Bateman · The Forum 1 2016 Ideal Points and American Political Development: Beyond DW NOMINATE David Alexander Bateman · Studies in American Political Development 41 2016 Race, Party, and American Voting Rights. David Alexander Bateman · The Forum 11 2016 Review of Separation of Powers and Legislative Organization, by Gisela Sin. David Alexander Bateman · The Journal of Politics 0 2016 Review of The First Congress: How James Madison, George Washington, and a Group of Ex- traordinary Men Invented the Government, by Fergus Bordewich. David Alexander Bateman · Political Science Quarterly 3 2015 Return the Union, 1877-1900 David Alexander Bateman · Scholar only — 2015 Southern Politics Revisited: On V.O. Key’s ‘South in the House’ David Alexander Bateman · Studies in American Political Development 11 2014 A House Divided? Roll Calls, Policy Differences, and Polarization from 1877-‐2011 David Alexander Bateman · Scholar only — 2013 Policy Issue Substance and the Political Behavior of Members of Congress David Alexander Bateman · The Substance of Representation — 2012 Redefining the Nation David Alexander Bateman · Work · Scholar only 1