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Alex Badas @alexbadas.bsky.social · 1d

BRB doing an experiment.

Pwnallthethings @pwnallthethings.bsky.social · 1d

Tragic news from Canada where the Canadian Supreme Court has gone from the official dress on the left to the one on the right

Canadian Supreme court. Everyone is dressed in bright red wooly gowns, with a beige trim. It looks sort of like a Santa robe

The Canadian Supreme court. Everyone is dressed in black gowns with a bright white kravat, and two thin red vertical lines on the side of the robe

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Alex Badas @alexbadas.bsky.social · 1d

Great opportunity for graduate students. The Law and Society Association is seeking applications for its new student fellows program.
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Law & Courts Women @judicialwomen.bsky.social · 6d

IT'S WRITING GROUP SEASON!!!!

L&C Women Writing Group has everything: erudite commentary, vast experience, bonding.

Evidence of success: Pick up the JOP. JLC. PRQ. P&G. SPPQ. Papers that went through our group are everywhere!

Deadline is tomorrow (10/3)!

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Law and Courts Women's Writing Group

Writing groups for the Fall 2025 semester

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Alex Garlick @garlicksauce.bsky.social · 7d

For public policy scholars: JPIPE published our article that uses machine learning to code the universe of congressional and state legislative data since 2009 by the Comparative Agenda Project policy codes. That's 1.68 million bills. OPEN-ACCESS here: www.nowpublishers.com/article/Deta...

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Alex Badas @alexbadas.bsky.social · 21d

The University of Houston is looking to hire a political theorist specializing in American political thought.

Full details are available here: careers.uh.edu/jobs/assista...

Assistant, Associate, or Full Professor - American Political Thought - Houston, Texas, United States

Department: Political Science Salary: Commensurate with experience Description: The Department of Political Science at the University of Houston invites applications for an open rank position of ...

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APSA Law & Courts Section @lawcourtsapsa.bsky.social · 20d

🔎 Job Market Spotlight: Meet Lucia Lopez, Ph.D. Candidate at the University of Houston and licensed attorney. Her research explores access to justice, legitimacy of state legal institutions and social policy. Learn more: www.lucia-lopez.com

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Alex Badas @alexbadas.bsky.social · 21d

The University of Houston is looking to hire a political theorist specializing in American political thought.

Full details are available here: careers.uh.edu/jobs/assista...

Assistant, Associate, or Full Professor - American Political Thought - Houston, Texas, United States

Department: Political Science Salary: Commensurate with experience Description: The Department of Political Science at the University of Houston invites applications for an open rank position of ...

careers.uh.edu

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Nick Davis @ntd.bsky.social · 24d

colleagues in political science. the formal update to the Garand and Giles journal ranking survey is now live. many of you will receive an email momentarily inviting you to participate. in the event you do NOT receive an invitation, please see this website to self-enroll. thanks! sharing = caring!

Participating

The Evaluation of Publication in Political Research study is open to serious producers and consumers of political research, including faculty in institutions of higher education, doctoral students,…

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Alex Badas @alexbadas.bsky.social · 29d

My article, "Judicial Ambition and the Crafting of Law: How Promotion Potential Shapes Appellate Opinions," is now published in Political Research Quarterly.

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Sage Journals: Discover world-class research

Subscription and open access journals from Sage, the world's leading independent academic publisher.

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Jonathan M. King @jonathanmking.bsky.social · Aug 15

Check out this cool new work!

As senators work through hundreds of nominees/Congress (in addition to all their other work), we argue nominees FedSoc affiliation serves as an important cue for senators when voting on judicial nominees.

Cambridge University Press Political Science & IR @cambup-polsci.cambridge.org · Aug 15

#OpenAccess from the Journal of Law and Courts -

The Influence of Federalist Society Affiliation on Senator Voting in Federal Judicial Nominations - cup.org/4meYp7l

- ‪@christinecbird.bsky.social, @jonathanmking.bsky.social & Zachary A. McGee

#FirstView

Banner for the "Journal of Law and Courts" featuring its title in white text alongside the hashtag "#OpenAccess" on a teal background with a decorative column element.

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Houston Political Science @houstonpolsci.bsky.social · Aug 11

Congratulations to @llopez.bsky.social on being named a 2025–2026 @epovb.bsky.social Early-Career Fellow!

This fellowship recognizes outstanding scholarship and potential in the field of Elections, Public Opinion, and Voting Behavior.

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Chris Warshaw @chriswarshaw.bsky.social · Aug 2

According to PlanScore, the new Texas congressional map would have a +17% pro-Republican efficiency gap, which is more skewed than 97% of congressional maps over the past 50 years. planscore.org/plan.html?20...

PlanScore

PlanScore is a first-of-its-kind gerrymandering scoring service for new district plans, allowing users to upload maps and instantly receive projected data about their partisan consequences. You can al...

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Houston Political Science @houstonpolsci.bsky.social · Jul 11

Congratulations to Lucia Lopez on receiving a Russell Sage Foundation Dissertation Research Grant! 🎉

Lucia will be on the academic job market this year. You can learn more about her research at www.lucia-lopez.com.

www.russellsage.org/awarded-proj...

How Features of Policy Design and Misperceptions Shape Public Opinion

Housing vouchers are both effective and widely supported, yet the housing vouchers program is underfunded. This may be due to American’s conflicting views about housing assistance. Recent scholarship ...

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APSA @apsa.bsky.social · Jun 9

Apply by 6/15! The 2025 APSA Fund for #Latino Scholarship awards grants to initiatives that provide professional development opportunities and financial assistance to Latino/a #graduatestudents in #polisci programs. buff.ly/2yyA9LT

Apply for the 2025 APSA Fund for Latino Scholarship | Deadline: June 29, 2025

The Fund for Latino Scholarship encourages and supports the recruitment, retention, and promotion of political science students and scholars who study and research Latina/o politics (especially students and tenure track junior faculty).

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Yusaku Horiuchi @yusakuhoriuchi.bsky.social · May 26

The Experimental Research section of the American Political Science Association (@experimentsapsa.bsky.social) invites research proposals from post-prospectus PhD students for its Experimental Research Early-Career Fellowship program. Share this post! @apsa.bsky.social, @poscresearch.bsky.social

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Joe Ura @joeura.bsky.social · May 19

I'm excited to share my latest article, Policy, Position-Taking, and Congressional Voting under Judicial Review, at American Politics Research coauthored with McKinzie Craig.

Come for the separation of powers theory, stay for the analysis of 1989 Senate flag burning votes!

doi.org/10.1177/1532...

Abstract

Judicial review introduces uncertainty for members of Congress about whether and to what extent bills they pass will have enduring policy consequences. We argue that the risk courts will strike down a law influences members’ of Congress strategic calculations about roll call voting, decreasing the relative importance of policy judgments and increasing the relative importance of position-taking considerations. We evaluate some empirical implications of this claim, analyzing a series of votes cast in the United States Senate on proposals to ban flag burning in 1989 following Texas v. Johnson. Comparisons of floor votes on a statutory flag burning ban—which could be overruled by the Supreme Court—and a constitutional amendment to ban flag burning—which would not have been subject to judicial review—are consistent with theoretical claims about strategic legislative behavior due to judicial review. We discuss some implications of this result for congressional politics and normative debates about the role of judicial review in American government.

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Jessica Schoenherr @jessicaann87.bsky.social · Apr 25

Heading your way in the July edition of the JOP!

@jamilscott.bsky.social, @elizabethlane.bsky.social, and I started it as grad students. Seven years, multiple surveys, countless hours of work…we are delighted (and in mild disbelief) to see it in print!

www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/10.1086/...

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Adam Bonica @adambonica.bsky.social · Mar 18

1/🧵 Judges across ideological lines are ruling against Trump at strikingly similar rates (84% liberal, 86% centrist, 82% conservative). This isn't partisan opposition to Trump—it's the judiciary functioning as intended by cutting across partisan lines to uphold the Constitution.

Title: Both Liberal and Conservative Judges Rule Against Trump
Description: A scatter plot showing the rulings of judges against or in favor of Trump, categorized by ideology using the DIME score. The x-axis represents Judge Ideology (DIME Score), ranging from liberal (-1) to conservative (1), and the y-axis represents the case outcome (against or for Trump).
• Blue dots represent liberal judges, purple dots represent moderate judges, and red dots represent conservative judges.
• Some judges are labeled, including Rudolph Contreras, Lauren King, John Coughenour, and James Emanuel Boasberg on the liberal to moderate side, and Carl Nichols, Richard J. Leon, and Joseph N. Laplante on the conservative side.
• A note mentions that Boasberg, though slightly right-leaning, was initially appointed by George W. Bush.
• The visualization suggests that judges from both ideological backgrounds ruled against Trump.

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Alex Badas @alexbadas.bsky.social · Feb 19

My article "Social Imagery and Subjective Ideological Proximity to the Supreme Court: Evidence From Evangelical Christians," co-authored with Eric Schmidt, is now online at Political Research Quarterly.

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Social Imagery and Subjective Ideological Proximity to the Supreme Court: Evidence From Evangelical Christians - Alex Badas, Eric R. Schmidt, 2025

Public opinion about the U.S. Supreme Court is heavily influenced by whether people perceive that the Court aligns with them ideologically. However, most Americ...

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John Kastellec @jkastellec.bsky.social · Feb 10

Political scientists, please note: Princeton Politics postdoc to work with me on law and courts research in 2025-2026. If you know of someone who might be interested, please share with them.
puwebp.princeton.edu/AcadHire/app...

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Alex Badas @alexbadas.bsky.social · Feb 10

The committee for the C. Herman Pritchett Award committee is soliciting nominations. The award is given to the best book on law and courts. More information is provided in the call for nominations below.

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Alex Badas @alexbadas.bsky.social · Feb 10

The committee for the C. Herman Pritchett Award committee is soliciting nominations. The award is given to the best book on law and courts. More information is provided in the call for nominations below.

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Siv Cheruvu @sivcheruvu.bsky.social · Jan 15

Are you a junior scholar studying law and politics looking for a friendly place to receive feedback on your work? Apply to present at the Junior Law and Politics Research Community's spring seminar series! Submit by January 24 for full consideration: tinyurl.com/16ixldoz

Junior Law and Politics community sign-up

The Junior Law and Politics research community and seminar series is a vibrant network of junior researchers (graduate students, post-docs, assistant professors, other non-tenured faculty) in the fiel...

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