国家歳入の制度に関する研究である『Of Rule and Revenue』(1988年)で、比較政治学における合理的選択アプローチの先駆的な役割を果たした。それ以来、「合理的選択分析を新たな実質的領域に押し進め」、例えば『Consent, Dissent, and Patriotism』(1997年)では、人々が徴兵制度を受け入れるかどうかを検証している:897
また、共著に『Analytic Narratives』(Princeton University Press, 1998)『Cooperation Without Trust? (Russell Sage, 2005)、『Labor Standards in International Supply Chains』(Edward Elgar, 2015)がある。ジョン・アールキストとの共著『In the Interest of Others』(Princeton, 2013)では、組織がメンバーの物質的な利害を超えた行動意欲をどのように刺激しているのかを探っている[2][3][4]。
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