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Text Box:   PUBLICATIONS Articles “State Public Opinion, the Death Penalty and the Practice of Electing Judges,” American Journal of Political Science, Forthcoming April 2008.  With Paul Brace.   “Linking Judicial Selection to Consensus: An Analysis of Ideological Diversity,” American Politics Research, 35(5): 643-670, September 2007.   “The Business of State Supreme Courts, Revisited,” The Journal of Empirical Legal Studies, 4(2): 427-439, July 2007. With Herbert M. Kritzer, Paul Brace, and Melinda Gann Hall.   Book Chapters “Judicial Selection Methods and Capital Punishment in the American States.”  In Running for Judge: The Rising Political, Financial, and Legal Stakes of Judicial Elections, Matthew J. Streb, ed.  New York: New York University Press, April 2007.  With Paul Brace.   Book Reviews Book review of The Final Arbiter: The Consequences of Bush v. Gore for Law and Politics by Christopher P. Banks, David B. Green, and John C. Green, eds., Congress and the Presidency, Spring 2006, Vol. 33: 1.   Other Publications “State Courts of Appeals,” Facts on File: Encyclopedia of American Government and Civics, Lori Cox Han and Michael A. Genovese, eds., Forthcoming 2008.   CONFERENCE PARTICIPATION Conference Papers “Institutional Structure and Judge Ideology in Tort Litigation in State Supreme Courts.” Presented at the second annual conference on Empirical Legal Studies, New York, NY, November 2007.  With Paul Brace and Jeff Yates.   “American State Constitutions and the Agenda of State Supreme Courts.”  Presented at the joint annual meetings of the Law and Society Association and the Research Committee on Sociology of Law, Berlin, Germany, July 2007.  With Paul Brace.   “The Consensual Effects of Seniority: An Analysis of Tenure in State Supreme Courts.”  Presented at the annual meeting of the State Politics and Policy section of the American Political Science Association, Austin, TX, February 2007.   “Civil Litigation in State Supreme Courts.”  Paper accepted for presentation at the annual meeting of the American Political Science Association, Philadelphia, PA, September 2006.  With Paul Brace and Jeff Yates.   “Judicial Diversity: The Interaction of Access and Consensus.”  Presented at the annual meeting of the Midwest Political Science Association, Chicago, IL, April 2006.   “Democratic Linkages in State Supreme Courts: The Impact of Selection.”  Presented at the annual meeting of the Western Political Science Association, Albuquerque, NM, March 2006.   “Does Ideological Composition Matter?  The Relationship between Recruitment and Voting Behavior in the State Supreme Courts.”  Presented at the annual meeting of the Southwestern Political Science Association, New Orleans, LA, March 2005.   "State Supreme Court Decision-Making:  A Re-evaluation of the Electoral Connection."  Presented at the annual meeting of the American Political Science Association, Chicago, IL, September 2004.  With Paul Brace.   “Discovering the Impact of State Judicial Selection Processes.”  Presented at the annual meeting of the Midwest Political Science Association, Chicago, IL, April 2004.   “Education Decision Coalitions in the State Supreme Courts.”  Presented at the annual meeting of the Southern Political Science Association, New Orleans, LA, January 2004.  With Sonia Noyola-Martinez.   “Death Penalty Decision Coalitions in State Supreme Courts.”  Presented at the annual meeting of the Southwestern Political Science Association, San Antonio, TX, April 2003.   “Coalition Behavior in the American State Supreme Courts.”  Presented at the annual meeting of the American Political Science Association, Boston, MA, September 2002.  

 

 

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