• (With Jeb Barnes) "Is There an Empirical Literature on Rights?" forthcoming, Studies in Law, Politics and Society.
  
  
• "Political Regimes and the Future of the First Amendment," Studies in Law, Politics and Society 44 (2008), 107-139.
  
  
• (With Jeb Barnes) “The Diffusion of Rights: From Rights on the Books to Organizational Rights Practices,” Law and Society Review 40, no.3 (Fall 2006), 493-524.
  

• “The European Union and the Diffusion of Disability Rights,” in eds. Martin Levin and Martin Shapiro, Transatlantic Policymaking in an Age of Austerity (Washington D.C: Georgetown University Press, 2004).
  
  
• “Judicial Implementation of Statutes: Three Stories About Courts and the Americans with Disabilities Act,” in eds. Mark Miller and Jeb Rosenberg, Making Policy, Making Law: An Interbranch Perspective (Washington D.C.: Georgetown University Press, 2004), 123-138.
  
  
• “Corruption Concepts and Federal Campaign Finance Law,” (Revised and updated version of “Concept of Corruption” article) in eds. Arnold Heidenheimer and Michael Johnston, Political Corruption: A Handbook, 3rd ed. (New Brunswick: Transaction Press, 2002), 645-664.
  
  
• "The Rights Revolution Continues: Why New Rights are Born (and Old Rights Rarely Die)," University of Connecticut Law Review 33, no.4 (Summer 2001): 1259-1274.
  
  

Working Papers (available on request: tburke@wellesley.edu)

• "The Bush Administration and the Uses of Judicial Politics" (with Nancy Scherer, for Gordon Center for Public Policy book on the Bush Adminstration)
  
  
• “The Mobilization and Diffusion of Rights: Organizational Responses to Accessibility Laws” (with Jeb Barnes)
  
  
• “The Politics of Adversarial Legalism, a Preliminary Inquiry"" (with Jeb Barnes)