Michael Nelson
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Prof. of Political Science @psupolisci. Law and Courts. A "sober scholar"--Vox.com A "skilled Qualtrician!"--Qualtrics employee. 🏳️🌈
State College, PA
Joined August 2007
RT @rachaelhouston_: TCU is hiring an Assistant Professor of Judicial Politics. Come work with me! Reach out with any questions: https://t.….
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Am begging people to just accept and understand that state supreme courts really matter!.
As the U.S. Supreme Court embraces federalism, are state supreme courts becoming the new power centers?
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For folks looking for some stats about the Court, Epstein, @WashUChancellor, and I have a preliminary report on the term: Hopefully this will be useful for teaching. SCDB data update will be out in August.
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RT @JKastellec: Happy to announce that Anthony Taboni and I have created a new dataset of the Supreme Court's Shadow Docket actions from 19….
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RT @The_JOP: "How to Place Non-Majoritarian Institutions and Political Actors in a Common Policy Space: Spatial Modeling of Court–Executive….
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RT @JKastellec: My paper, "The Supreme Court: How Did We Get Here? And What Comes Next?", co-authored with Chuck Cameron, is now available….
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RT @jodikantor: To everyone out there debating whether Justice Barrett is drifting left, please check out this analysis by Lee Epstein, @Wa….
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Morrgan is a phenomenal political scientist who studies judicial nominations. Any department looking to hire next year in American institutions/judicial will be lucky to have her!.
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Then, in a conjoint experiment, we show how interest group statements can help people to align their opinions with their support for a nominee.
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When a nominee obfuscates about their belief on a controversial issue (e.g., abortion), the effect of a respondent's issue position on their support for the nominee is severed. When a nominee is forthcoming (as state candidates often are), issue positions strongly predict support.
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We examine how judicial nominees' statements to the public affect people's support for their confirmation. Probably our most surprising finding is that the public takes nominees at their word.
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This was a really fun paper to write with an excellent (and on the market!) @psupolisci grad student, Morrgan Herlihy.
In #FirstView by Morrgan T. Herlihy and Michael J. Nelson: "Judging Judicial Nominees"
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RT @PRQjournal: In #FirstView by Morrgan T. Herlihy and Michael J. Nelson: "Judging Judicial Nominees"
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RT @WashU_CT: When Nathan's heart stopped, heroes and Dr. Matthew Schill, a WashU Medicine cardiothoracic surgeon at Barnes-Jewish, saved h….
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RT @psupolisci: Congrats to Eric Plutzer and Michael Berkman for receiving an NSF grant to re-survey people who have participated in their….
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RT @mjnelson7: Voters in Mexico are going to the polls today to elect judges, from their national Supreme Court down to the local courts. T….
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@dra_driscoll and I have been surveying voters, attorneys, and candidates throughout this process. You can see the first wave of our survey data and read reports from the data here:
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Voting today looks to be challenging. Each candidate is assigned a number and voters need to write the candidates’ numbers on the ballot by hand. The NYT has a great story on this today:
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