Michael Nelson
@mjnelson7
Prof. of Political Science @psupolisci. Law and Courts. A "sober scholar"--Vox.com A "skilled Qualtrician!"--Qualtrics employee. 🏳️🌈
🧑🏽⚖️ 🇲🇽 A new book edited by Saúl López-Noriega and Javier Martín-Reyes examines the law, history, and politics of judicial elections in Mexico. Available in open access: eljuegodelacorte.nexos.com.mx/wp-content/upl…
Here's a treat for state politics and policy researchers. Ethan Dee and I published a dataset in Nature: Scientific Data with 1.36 million state legislative bills since ~2009 coded by 28 policy areas. We used a machine learning model built off open source components.
TCU is hiring an Assistant Professor of Judicial Politics. Come work with me! Reach out with any questions: tinyurl.com/tcujudicial
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? hls.harvard.edu/today/the-cour…
For folks looking for some stats about the Court, Epstein, @WashUChancellor, and I have a preliminary report on the term: static1.squarespace.com/static/6018850…. Hopefully this will be useful for teaching. SCDB data update will be out in August.
Happy to announce that Anthony Taboni and I have created a new dataset of the Supreme Court's Shadow Docket actions from 1993-2025. A paper describing the data and a website with the data and documentation can be found in the next post.
"How to Place Non-Majoritarian Institutions and Political Actors in a Common Policy Space: Spatial Modeling of Court–Executive Interactions" by Benjamin G. Engst, David M. Grundmanns, and Thomas Gschwend. journals.uchicago.edu/doi/10.1086/73…
My paper, "The Supreme Court: How Did We Get Here? And What Comes Next?", co-authored with Chuck Cameron, is now available in The ANNALS of the American Academy of Political and Social Science. journals.sagepub.com/doi/epub/10.11…
To everyone out there debating whether Justice Barrett is drifting left, please check out this analysis by Lee Epstein, @WashUChancellor and @mjnelson7, which was vital to our reporting. static1.squarespace.com/static/6018850…
In #FirstView by Morrgan T. Herlihy and Michael J. Nelson: "Judging Judicial Nominees" journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/10…
When Nathan's heart stopped, heroes and Dr. Matthew Schill, a WashU Medicine cardiothoracic surgeon at Barnes-Jewish, saved his life with expert care. His journey highlights hope and excellence of our practice in medicine. Discover more: bit.ly/4jVOUZE #WashUMedicine
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When Nathan's heart stopped, heroes and Dr. Matthew Schill, a WashU Medicine cardiothoracic surgeon at Barnes-Jewish, saved his life with expert care. His journey highlights hope and excellence of our practice in medicine. Discover more: bit.ly/4jVOUZE #WashUMedicine
Congrats to Eric Plutzer and Michael Berkman for receiving an NSF grant to re-survey people who have participated in their Mood of the Nation Poll! psu.edu/news/liberal-a…
Great work by a couple of my great students this past semester!
Congratulations to Jessica Firestone and Connor McMahan for placing at the 2025 Undergraduate Research Exhibition! polisci.la.psu.edu/news/political…
Voters in Mexico are going to the polls today to elect judges, from their national Supreme Court down to the local courts. This is the biggest implementation of simultaneous judicial elections anywhere.