Michael Nelson

#OpenAccess from State Politics and Policy Quarterly - Can Issue Publics Overcome Inequalities in State Policy Knowledge? - https://cup.org/4huErnU - @mjnelson.bsky.social & @cmwitko.bsky.social #FirstView

New paper with @mjnelson.bsky.social Affluent + highly educated are more knowledgeable about state policies. Issue publics reduce knowledge disparities for some groups (LGBT on LGBT issues, women on abortion), but these disparities remain within issue publics. www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

@mjnelson.bsky.social & Amanda Driscoll on how the judicial reforms in Mexico have shaped attorneys' trust in the courts, ambitions to enter the judiciary, and litigation practice! #ecprgc26

Penn State is hiring an Assistant Professor with research and teaching interests in political science and artificial intelligence, broadly defined. Please share widely! psu.wd1.myworkdayjobs.com/PSU_Academic...

It is syllabus time, so time to circulate a handout I wrote a few years ago that people have found useful in their classes about how to read academic articles: mjnelson.org/Teaching/How...

Join host Eleonora Mattiacci in conversation with Cyanne E. Loyle, author of Escaping Justice, as they explore how states navigate international pressure while maintaining impunity. https://cup.org/4z6QvE3 #PoliSci #ComparativePolitics #EscapingJustice

Preference or principles? 👨‍⚖️ 🦹 These authors 🧵 introduce the noncompliance penalty, using survey experiments, to explain the loss of public support for government actions that contravenes the law buff.ly/veOR66L

Now that we’re well into summer, I think it’s time to announce here FSU’s polisci dept’s hiring last year. (I meant to do at the end of the year but forgot.) First up, James Gibson, previously of WashU, will be joining us in the fall as the Regent’s Research Professor. This is a huge coup for us.

From TOMORROW (19th of May 2026) all articles accepted for publication in the Journal of Law and Courts will be #OpenAccess. Find out more here - https://cup.org/4snLLp9 We have an OA option for every author.

Stolen Representation by Michael P. Olson This book uses a tremendous amount of new historical data to illuminate how voting rights shape legislative representation. 📚 https://cup.org/4tt9W6u

Not sure whether this is apt or terrible timing but here’s the official cover of my book due out with @uncpress.bsky.social W. Hodding Carter III imprint this fall. 🎉

See also this article with @mjnelson.bsky.social journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

Just published my analysis of spending in the 2024 state supreme court election cycle. At $157 million, this was the most expensive cycle ever for judicial races…by a lot. Including in states where judicial elections probably weren’t on your radar.

If you are interested in the U.S. Supreme Court, but have never seen the justices in action, onthedocket.org provides a step in the right direction. We combine authentic audio with AI-generated video to show you the justices announcing opinions in some of the highest profile cases they decide!

Come work at Stanford! I'm hiring a post-doc who will work with me on projects about prosecutors and trial courts in the US. Feel free to contact me with any questions, or apply here: hoover.smapply.us/prog/postdoc...

As rights protections across the states diverge people may relocate to pursue more rights. @mjnelson.bsky.social and I find abortion rights spur moves and this very interesting report shows that attacks on LGBT rights are also interstate spurring migration. journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

Just in time for your State Politics grad seminar, Berkman, Herlihy and I have some data on the development of the State Politics subfield (and SPPQ) over the past 65 years!

🚨 the best state policy & public opinion database is now online. ~200 (!!!) state policies and 80 public opinion series on abortion, labor, taxes, environment, guns, education… dynamicdemocracy.shinyapps.io Massive public goods provision from @devincaughey.bsky.social & @chriswarshaw.bsky.social

Penn State published a nice article on my recent book with Amanda Driscoll and Jay Krehbiel about the public's support for the rule of law and why it matters: www.psu.edu/news/liberal...

Doctors are less likely to want a residency in states with abortion bans per research with @mjnelson.bsky.social Studies we cite shows high achieving women don’t want to go to college in states with bans. It goes beyond bans of course. Brain drain is real. journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

A new article with @mjnelson.bsky.social in PRQ, using a conjoint, CPS ASES and medical residency application data, finds that abortion bans make states less desirable places to live for young women, college graduates and doctors. This law is more extreme. journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

Friends, my article w/ @silje-hermansen.bsky.social and @louisabo.bsky.social on how/why the "have nots" come out ahead in litigation @eucourtofjustice.bsky.social is out in @bjpols.bsky.social! We propose a theory of judicial leveling & spotlighting to explain these contrarian results: take a look!

SPPC 2026 will be held in Chicago and has a website: www.luc.edu/politicalsci.... Hope to see you there!

NEW - Trust in the Judiciary and Partisan Reactions to Judicial Checks: Evidence from Argentina - https://cup.org/42BRe1j "judicial checks expose citizens to information that is primarily instrumental" - Martín Gandur #FirstView

#OpenAccess from @apsrjournal.bsky.social - The Path of Law: Legal Uncertainty and Issues of First Impression in the U.S. Courts of Appeals - https://cup.org/42XsrF0 - @anthonytaboni.bsky.social #FirstView

Taught intro to hypothesis testing today in undergrad stats for the first time in a while and this activity is undefeated for giving the intuition for hypothesis testing: jse.amstat.org/v2n1/eckert..... Plus you can do it as a magic trick which makes it fun.

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!

More than you've ever wanted to know about the consequences executives face for defying courts, available for 20% off with discount code TEJR2025 at www.cambridge.org/core/books/e...!

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