McDonagh E. The Family-State Nexus and American Political Development: Explaining Women Political Citizenship. Polity. 2016;48(2):186–204. Abstract Special Issue on the Family and the State
McDonagh E. Ripples from the First Wave: The Monarchical Origins of the Welfare State. Perspectives on Politics. 2015;13(4):992–1016. doi:December 2015
McDonagh E. Gender and the State: Accommodating Difference and Equality. Politics and Gender. 2014;10(2):271–276.
McDonagh E. It takes a State: A Policy Feedback Model of Women’s Political Representation. Perspectives on Politics. 2010.
McClain L, Grossman J, editors. Citizenship and Women’s Election to Political Office: The Power of Public Policies. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. 2009. Abstract Women’s Equal Citizenship
McDonagh E. The motherless state: women's political leadership and American democracy. University of Chicago Press. 2009. Abstract Winner of the 2010 J. David Greenstone Award for the best book on politics and history, Politics and History Section, American Political Science Association.
McDonagh E, Pappano L. Playing with the Boys: Why Separate Is Not Equal in Sports. New York: Oxford University Press. 2008.
The Next Step After Roe: Using Fundamental Rights, Equal Protection Analysis to Nullify Restrictive State-Level Abortion Legislation. Emory Law Review. 2007;56(4):1173–1214.
Skowronek S, Glassman M, editors. Forging a New Grammar of Equality and Difference: Progressive Era Suffrage and Reform. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press. 2007. Abstract Formative Acts: Reckoning with Agency in American Politics
Political Citizenship and Democratization: The Gender Paradox. American Political Science Review. 2002;96(3):535–552.