I am an assistant professor in the Department of Politics at Princeton University. My main research area is judicial politics, but I have broad interests in the study of American politics. My current research analyzes the dynamics of collegial decision making on three-judge panels of the U.S. Courts of Appeals, with a particular focus on how the judicial hierarchy interacts with collegiality to influence individual judicial voting. I also have research interests in political methodology and formal theory, and have done research on congressional elections, public opinion and Supreme Court nominations. Along with Jeff Lax and Justin Phillips, I am working on a series of papers that investigates the relationship between public opinion and senatorial roll call voting on Supreme Court nominees.
contact info
Princeton University
Department of Politics
39 Corwin Hall
Princeton, NJ 08544
609-258-8951
Curriculum Vitae
Publications
- Panel Composition and Voting on the United States Courts of Appeals, Political Research Quarterly, forthcoming.
- The Statistical Analysis of Judicial Decisions and Legal Rules with Classification Trees, Journal of Empirical Legal Studies, forthcoming.
- Panel Composition and Judicial Compliance on the U.S. Courts of Appeals, 2007. Journal of Law, Economics & Organization. 23(2): 421-41.
- Using Graphs Instead of Tables in Political Science, with Eduardo Leoni. 2007. Perspectives on Politics. 5(4): 755-71.
- Predicting and Dissecting the Seats-Votes Curve in the 2006 U.S. House Election, with Andrew Gelman and Jamie Chandler. 2008. PS: Political Science and Politics. 41(1):139-145.
- Case Selection and the Study of Judicial Politics, with Jeffrey Lax. 2008. Journal of Empirical Legal Studies. 5(3): 407-446.
- The Playing Field Shifts: Predicting the Seats-Votes Curve in the 2008 U.S. House Election, with Andrew Gelman and Jamie Chandler. 2008. PS: Political Science and Politics.41(4):729-32.
Working Papers
- My SSRN webpage
- Hierarchical and Collegial Politics on the U.S. Courts of Appeals (under review), Winner of the Law & Courts Section's 2009 CQ Award for Best Graduate Student Paper
- Public Opinion and Senate Confirmation of Supreme Court Nominees, with Jeffrey Lax and Justin Phillips