Research
Brandon Bartels
Peer-Reviewed Publications
2013. “On the
Ideological Foundations of Supreme Court Legitimacy in the American Public,”
with Christopher D. Johnston. American Journal of Political Science 57(1):184-99. [Data and
replication] [Supporting Information]
2012. “Political
Justice? Perceptions of Politicization and Public Preferences Toward the Supreme Court Appointment Process,” with
Christopher D. Johnston. Public
Opinion Quarterly 76(1):105-16.
2011. “Politics at the Checkout Line: Explaining
Political Consumerism in the U.S,” with Benjamin J. Newman. Political Research Quarterly 64(4):803-17.
2011. “The
Dynamic Properties of Individual-Level Party Identification in the United
States,” with Janet M. Box-Steffensmeier, Corwin
D. Smidt, and Renee M. Smith. Electoral Studies 30(1):210-22.
2011. “Choices in Context: How
Case-Level Factors Shape the Magnitude of Ideological Voting on the U.S.
Supreme Court.” American Politics Research 39(1):142-75.
2010. "Sensationalism and
Sobriety: Differential Media Exposure and Attitudes Toward
American Courts," with Christopher D. Johnston. Public Opinion
Quarterly 74(2):260-85.
2009. "The Constraining
Capacity of Legal Doctrine on the U.S. Supreme Court." American
Political Science Review 103(3):474-95.
2009. "Explaining Processes of
Institutional Opinion Leadership," with Diana C. Mutz.
Journal of Politics 71(1):249-61. (Web
Appendix)
2008. "Sounding the Fire
Alarm: The Role of Interest Groups in the Lower Court Confirmation Process,"
with Nancy Scherer and Amy Steigerwalt. Journal of
Politics 70(4):1026-39. (Web Appendix)
2005. "The Incidence and Timing of
PAC Contributions to Incumbent U.S. House Members, 1993-94," with
Janet M. Box-Steffensmeier and Peter M. Radcliffe.
Legislative Studies Quarterly 30(November): 549-79. [Data, replication materials, and the online appendix]
2005. "On Being a Lone
Dissenter," with Donald Granberg. Journal
of Applied Social Psychology 35:1849-58.
Book Chapters
2010. "Top-Down
and Bottom-Up Models of Judicial Reasoning." In The Psychology of
Judicial Decision Making, David Klein and Gregory Mitchell, eds.
2005. "Ambivalence Toward American Political Institutions: Sources and
Consequences," with Kathleen M. McGraw. In Ambivalence
and the Structure of Political Opinion, eds. Stephen C. Craig and
Michael D. Martinez.
Papers Under Review and Work in Progress
Judicial Politics
The Constraining Capacity of Law
on the U.S. Supreme Court. Longer-term
book project. Supported by NSF grant SES-1123701 ($110,713), September 2011 –
August 2013.
The Normative
Implications of Empirical Research on Law and Courts, with Chris W. Bonneau. Supported by NSF grant SES-1228306. (We are hosting a
workshop at GWU on May 10, 2013. We plan to produce an edited volume).
“On
the Impact of the Solicitor General on Supreme Court Decision Making:
Distinguishing Influence, Constraint, and Polarization.” Work in progress
“Is Legal Change Revolutionary
or Evolutionary? Legal Dynamics on U.S. Supreme Court,” with Andrew O’Geen. Work in progress
“Learning from Forecast Evaluation: The Case of
Expert Forecasts of the U.S. Supreme Court’s Health Care Ruling.” Work in progress
"Modeling
Circuit Effects on the U.S. Courts of Appeals," with Chad Westerland. Work in progress
Public Perceptions of the
“The Influence of Political Predispositions on
Supreme Court Legitimacy: An Empirical Test in the Context of the Affordable
Care Act Ruling,” with Christopher D. Johnston and D. Sunshine Hillygus.
“Legal
Elites and Public Perceptions of the Supreme Court: Is the Supreme Court a
‘Political’ Institution?” with Christopher D. Johnston. Work in progress
Political Behavior and Public Opinion
"How Firm a Foundation?
Dynamics in Partisanship Over the Campaign," with Corwin D. Smidt and Janet M. Box-Steffensmeier.
In preparation for journal submission
“Citizen
Perceptions of Tax Expenditures and Their Costs: Evidence From a Survey
Experiment,” with Jake Haselswerdt. Work in
progress
Political Methodology
“Beyond ‘Fixed versus Random Effects’: A Framework for Improving
Substantive and Statistical Analysis of Panel, TSCS, and Multilevel Data.”
(Appendix) Note: I have created a Stata .ado file for performing data transformations described
in the paper. See the Appendix for details on downloading the program. In
preparation for journal submission
“Issues Accompanying Time-Varying Data in Duration Modeling, With
an Empirical Application to the Overruling of Supreme Court Precedent.”
Work in progress