I’ve organized my research by topic to help you find any work of interest. There is some duplication and cross-listing. For a chronological listing see my cv.
1. Courts: Methodology, Judicial Hierarchy, Collegial Courts, Other Court Papers
2. Supreme Court Nominations
3. The Presidency
4. Veto Bargaining
5. Congress
6. Bureaucracy and Public Sector Personnel Economics
7. Lobbying and Campaign Contributions
8. Other
| Title | Co-authors | Citation | Date/Other |
| What Do Courts Do? How to Model Judicial Actions | Lewis A. Kornhauser | Working paper (Chapter 2 of Model Courts: Positive Political Theory and Judicial Institutions) | June 2017 |
| What Do Judges Want? How to Model Judicial Preferences | Lewis A. Kornhauser | Asian Journal of Law and Economics, 2023 | December 2023 |
| Title | Co-authors | Citation | Date/Other |
| Strategic Defiance and Compliance in the U.S. Courts of Appeals | Chad Westerland, Jeffrey A. Segal, Lee Epstein, Scott Comparato | American Journal of Political Science, 54(4):891-905, 2010 | 2010 |
| Appeals Mechanisms, Litigant Selection, and the Structure of Judicial Hierarchies | Lewis A. Kornhauser | Institutional Games and the U.S. Supreme Court, Jon Bond, Roy Flemming, and James Rogers (editors), University of Virginia Press, 2006 | 2006 |
| Decision Rules in a Judicial Hierarchy | Lewis A. Kornhauser | Journal of Institutional and Theoretical Economics, 161(2):264-292 (2005) | 2005 |
| Strategic Auditing in a Political Hierarchy: An Informational Model of the Supreme Court’s Certiorari Decisions | Jeffrey A. Segal, Donald Songer | American Political Science Review 94(1): 101-116 (2000) | March 2000 |
| An Empirical Test of the Rational-Actor Theory of Litigation | Jeffrey A. Segal, Donald Songer | Journal of Politics, 57(4):1119-29 (1995) | November 1995 |
| Decision Making on the U.S. Courts of Appeals | Jeffrey A. Segal, Donald Songer | Contemplating Courts, CQ Press, Lee Epstein (editor), (1995) | 1995 |
| The Hierarchy of Justice: Testing a Principal-Agent Model of Supreme Court-Circuit Court Interactions | Jeffrey A. Segal, Donald Songer | American Journal of Political Science, 38(3):673-693 (1994) | August 1994 |
| Title | Co-authors | Citation | Date/Other |
| Bargaining and Strategic Voting on Appellate Courts and Appendices | Giri Parameswaran, Lewis A. Kornhauser | American Political Science Review 115(3):835-850 (2021) | August 2021 |
| Stare Decisis and Judicial Log-Rolls: A Gains-from-Trade Model | Giri Parameswaran, Lewis A. Kornhauser | RAND Journal of Economics, 50(3):505-531 (2019) | Fall 2019 |
| Theorizing the U.S. Supreme Court | Lewis A. Kornhauser | The Oxford Research Encyclopedia of Politics, Oxford University Press (2017) | 2017 |
| The Chief Justice and Procedural Power | Tom Clark | The Chief Justice: Appointment and Influence, David Danelski and Artemus Ward (editors), University of Michigan Press (2016) | 2016 |
| Bargaining On Appellate Courts | Lewis A. Kornhauser | Working paper - Three block version | August 2013 |
| Policy and Disposition Coalitions on the Supreme Court of the United States | Deborah Beim and Lewis A. Kornhauser | Working paper | February 2011 |
| Modeling Collegial Courts (3): Adjudication Equilibria | Lewis A. Kornhauser | NYU School of Law, Public Law Research Paper No. 09-39, NYU Law and Economics Research Paper No. 09-29 | September 2010 |
| How Will They Vote? Predicting the Future Behavior of Supreme Court Nominees, 1937-2006 | Jee-Kwang Park | Journal of Empirical Legal Studies 6(3):485-511 (2009) | 2009 |
| Bargaining and Opinion Assignment on the U.S. Supreme Court | Jeffrey Lax | Journal of Law, Economics, and Organization, 23(2):276-302 (2007) | 2007 |
| Ideological Values and the Votes of U.S. Supreme Court Justices Revisited | Jeffrey A. Segal, Lee Epstein, Harold Spaeth | Journal of Politics, 57(3):812-823 (1995) | August 1995 |
| Title | Co-authors | Citation | Date/Others |
| Coordination and Innovation in Judiciaries: Correct Law versus Consistent Law | Mehdi Shadmehr, Sepehr Shahshahani | Quarterly Journal of Political Science, 17(1) (2022) | 2022 |
| Great Judges: Judicial Leadership in Theory and Practice | Mehdi Shadmehr | Leadership in American Politics, Jeff Jenkins and Craig Volden editors, University of Kansas Press | December 2017 |
| Rational Choice Attitudinalism? A review of Epstein, Landes and Posner’s The behavior of federal judges: a theoretical and empirical study of rational choice | Lewis A. Kornhauser | European Journal of Law and Economics, 43(3):535-554 (2017) | June 2017 |
| Endogenous Preferences about Courts: A Theory of Judicial State Building in the Nineteenth Century ALTERNATIVE TITLE: Judicial Federalism | Preferences And Situations, Ira Katznelson and Barry Weingast (editors), Russell Sage Foundation (2005) | 2005 | |
| Judicial Independence: How Can You Tell It When You See It? And, Who Cares? | Judicial Independence at the Crossroads, Steve Burbank and Barry Friedman (editors), Sage Publications (2002) | 2002 | |
| New Avenues for Modeling Judicial Politics (Figures) | Working paper, Columbia University | 1993 |
| Title | Co-authors | Citation | Date/Others |
| The Politics of Accountability in Supreme Court Nominations: Voter Recall and Assessment of Senator Votes on Nominees | Leeann Bass, Jonathan P. Kastellec | Working Paper | October 2020 |
| Presidential Selection of Supreme Court Nominees: The Characteristics Approach | Jonathan P. Kastellec, Lauren Mattioli | Quarterly Journal of Political Science, 14(4):439-474. | May 2019 |
| From Genteel Pluralism to Hyper-Pluralism: Interest Groups and Supreme Court Nominations, 1930-2017 | Cody Gray, Jonathan P. Kastellec, Jee-Kwang Park | Journal of Law and Courts | Forthcoming |
| Are Supreme Court Nominations a Move-the-Median Game? Erratum | Jonathan P. Kastellec | American Political Science Review, 110(4):778-797 (2016) | November 2016 |
| Voting for Justices: Change and Continuity in Confirmation Voting 1937-2010 | Jonathan P. Kastellec, Jee-Kwang Park | Journal of Politics, 75(2):283-299 (2013) | 2013 |
| Going Public When Opinion Is Contested: Evidence from Presidents' Campaigns for Supreme Court Nominees, 1930-2009 | Jee-Kwang Park | Presidential Studies Quarterly, 41(3):442-470 (2011) | 2011 |
| How Will They Vote? Predicting the Future Behavior of Supreme Court Nominees, 1937-2006 | Jee-Kwang Park | Journal of Empirical Legal Studies, 6(3):485-511 (2009) | September 2009 |
| Shaping Supreme Court Policy Through Appointments: The Impact of a New Justice | Jee-Kwang Park, Deborah Beim | University of Minnesota Law Review, 93(5):1820-1870 (2009) | 2009 |
| The Politics of Supreme Court Nominations: The Critical Role of the Media Environment | A Quantitative Tour of the Social Sciences, Andrew Gelman and Jeronimo Cortina (editors), Cambridge University Press (2009) | 2009 | |
| Modeling Strategy in Congressional Hearings | A Quantitative Tour of the Social Sciences, Andrew Gelman and Jeronimo Cortina (editors), Cambridge University Press (2009) | 2009 | |
| A Spatial Model of Roll Call Voting: Senators, Constituents, Presidents, and Interest Groups in Supreme Court Confirmations | Jeffrey A. Segal, Albert D. Cover | American Journal of Political Science, 36(1):96-121 (1992) | February 1992 |
| Senate Voting on Supreme Court Nominees: A Neoinstitutional Model | Jeffrey A. Segal, Albert D. Cover | American Political Science Review, 84(2):525-534 (1990) | June 1990 |
| Senate Confirmation of Supreme Court Justices: The Role of Ideology in Senate Confirmation of Supreme Court Justices | Jeffrey A. Segal, Albert D. Cover | Kentucky Law Journal, 77(3):485-504 (1988) | 1988 |
| Title | Co-authors | Citation | Date/Others |
| Does White House Regulatory Review Produce a Chilling Effect and "OIRA Avoidance" in the Agencies? | Alex Acs | Presidential Studies Quarterly, 43(3):443-467 (2013) | September 2013 |
| Vetoes, Bargaining, and Boundary Conditions | Political Analysis, 20(4):520-524 (2012) | Autumn 2012 | |
| Going Public When Opinion Is Contested: Evidence from Presidents' Campaigns for Supreme Court Nominees, 1930-2009 | Jee-Kwang Park | Presidential Studies Quarterly, 41(3):442-470 (2011) | 2011 |
| The Presidential Veto | Oxford Handbook of the American Presidency, George Edwards and William Howell (editors), Oxford University Press (2009) | 2009 | |
| The Political Economy of the US Presidency | Oxford Handbook of the Political Economy, Barry R. Weingast and Donald A. Wittman (editors), Oxford University Press (2006) | 2006 | |
| A Primer on the President's Legislative Program | Jee-Kwang Park | Presidential Leadership: The Vortex of Power, Bert Rockman and Richard Waterman (editors), Roxbury Press (2008) | 2008 |
| Models of Vetoes and Veto Bargaining | Nolan McCarty | Annual Review of Political Science, 7:409-435 (2004) | 2004 |
| Presidential Studies Meets Public Administration: Discussion of 'The President and the Bureaucracy in the United States' | The Evolution of Political Knowledge, Edward Mansfield and Richard Sisson (editors), Ohio State University Press (2004) | 2004 | |
| Studying The Polarized Presidency | Presidential Studies Quarterly, 32(4):647-663 (2002) | 2002 | |
| John S. Lapinski, Charles R. Riemann | Journal of Politics, 62(1):187-205 (2000) | February 2000 | |
| Bargaining and Presidential Power | Presidential Power: Forging the Presidency for the 21st Century, Robert Y. Shapiro, Martha Joynt Kumar, Lawrence R. Jacobs (editors), Columbia University Press (2000) | 2000 | |
| Veto Bargaining: Presidents and the Politics of Negative Power | Part of Political Economy of Institutions and Decisions Series, James Alt and Douglass North (editors), (2000) | 2000 | |
| Sequential Veto Bargaining | Susan Elmes | Working Paper | 1994 |
| Title | Co-authors | Citation | Date/Others |
| New Directions in Veto Bargaining: Message Legislation, Virtue Signaling, and Electoral Accountability | Nathan Gibson |
The SAGE Handbook of Research Methods in Political Science and International Relations, Luigi Curini and Robert Franzese (editors), (2020)
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2020 |
| Veto Bargaining: Presidents and the Politics of Negative Power |
Part of Political Economy of Institutions and Decisions series, Cambridge University Press (2000)
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June 2000 |
| Title | Co-authors | Citation | Date/Others |
| Fire Alarms and Democratic Accountability | Sanford C. Gordon | Working Paper | October 2021 |
| Message Legislation and the Politics of Virtue Signaling | Daniel Gibbs and Jesse M. Crosson | Working Paper | April 2021 |
| Virtue Signaling: A Theory of Message Legislation | Daniel Gibbs | Working Paper | 2020 |
| New Directions in Veto Bargaining: Message Legislation, Virtue Signaling, and Electoral Accountability | Nathan Gibson |
The SAGE Handbook of Research Methods in Political Science and International Relations, Luigi Curini and Robert Franzese (editors), (2020)
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2020 |
| Voting for Justices: Change and Continuity in Confirmation Voting 1937-2010 | Jonathan P. Kastellec, Jee-Kwang Park | Journal of Politics, 75(2):283-299 (2013) | 2013 |
| Bill Support Rates: What Do They Tell Us About Theories of Law Making | Scott Adler, Scott Minkoff | Working Paper | 2009 |
| Modeling Strategy in Congressional Hearings | A Quantitative Tour of the Social Sciences, Andrew Gelman and Jeronimo Cortina (editors), Cambridge University Press (2009) | 2009 | |
| A Primer on the President's Legislative Program | Jee-Kwang Park | Presidential Leadership: The Vortex of Power, Bert Rockman and Richard Waterman (editors), Roxbury Press (2008) | 2008 |
| The Macropolitics of Telecommunication Policy, 1899-1998: Lawmaking, Policy Windows, and Agency Control | Grace R. Freedman | The Macropolitics of Congress, Scott Adler and John Lapinski (editors), Princeton University Press (2006) | 2006 |
| Divided Government and the Legislative Productivity of Congress, 1945-94 | William Howell, Scott Adler, Charles Riemann | Legislative Studies Quarterly, 25(2):285-312 (2000) | May 2000 |
| Do Majority-Minority Districts Maximize Black Substantive Representation in Congress | David Epstein, Sharyn O'Halloran | American Political Science Review, 90(4):794-812 (1996) | December 1996 |
| A Signaling Theory of Congressional Oversight | B. Peter Rosendorff | Games and Economic Behavior (special issue on game theoretic models of politics), Jeffrey Banks and Roger Myerson (editors) (1993) | 1993 |
| A Spatial Model of Roll Call Voting: Senators, Constituents, Presidents, and Interest Groups in Supreme Court Confirmations | Jeffrey A. Segal, Albert D. Cover | American Journal of Political Science, 36(1):96-121 (1992) | February 1992 |
| Senate Voting on Supreme Court Nominees: A Neoinstitutional Model | Jeffrey A. Segal, Albert D. Cover | American Political Science Review, 84(2):525-534 (1990) | June 1990 |
| Senate Confirmation of Supreme Court Justices: The Role of Ideology in Senate Confirmation of Supreme Court Justices | Jeffrey A. Segal, Albert D. Cover | Kentucky Law Journal, 77(3):485-504 (1988) | 1988 |
Bureaucracy and Public Sector Personnel Economics
| Title | Co-authors | Citation | Date/Others |
| Quitting in Protest: A Theory of Presidential Policy Making and Agency Response | John M. de Figueiredo | Quarterly Journal of Political Science, 15(4):507-538 (2020) | October 2020 |
| Public Sector Personnel Economics: Wages, Promotions, and the Competence-Control Trade-Off | John M. de Figueiredo, David E. Lewis | Advances in Strategic Management, 41:111-148 (2020) | July 2020 |
| The Network Structure of the U.S. Federal Government: Evidence from Inter-Agency Mobility Data 1998-2010 | Romain Ferrali | Working Paper | April 2015 |
Lobbying and Campaign Contributions
| Title | Co-authors | Citation | Date/Others |
| Endogenous Cost Lobbying: Theory and Evidence and Appendix |
John M. de Figueiredo | Working Paper | March 2019 |
| Informational Lobbying and Counter-Lobbying over Budgets | John M. de Figueiredo | Working Paper | May 2015 |
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Strategic Endorsements |
Joon-Pyo Jung | Working Paper | March 1994 |
| Asymmetric Policy Effects, Campaign Contributions, and the Spatial Theory of Elections | James Enelow | Mathematical and Computer Modelling (invited paper, special issue on political science, Paul Johnson, editor), 16(8-9):117-132 (1992) | August/September 1992 |
| Elections and the Theory of Campaign Contributions: A Survey and Critical Analysis | Rebecca Morton | Economics and Politics, 4(1):79-108 (1992) | March 1992 |
| Title | Co-authors | Citation | Date/Others |
| Courts to the Rescue? | The Boston Review | August 20, 2018 | |
| Technical Appendix for "Courts to the Rescue?" | The Boston Review | August 2018 | |
| What is Political Science? | A Quantitative Tour of the Social Sciences, Andrew Gelman and Jeronimo Cortina (editors), Cambridge University Press (2009) | 2009 | |
| Formal Theory Meets Data | Rebecca Morton | American Political Science Association's Political Science: The State of the Discipline, Ira Katznelson and Helen V. Milner (editors), W. W. Norton & Company (2002) | 2002 |
| Riot Games: A Theory of Riots and Mass Political Violence | Sunita Parikh | Presented at the W. Allen Wallis Institute of Political Economy, University of Rochester | 2000 |