The rise of mass incarceration in the United States is one of the most critical outcomes of the
last half-century. Incarceration Nation offers the most compelling explanation of this outcome …

The transfer of authority over the supervision of inmate populations from state and federal
governments to private corporations is one of the most significant contemporary …

In this article, we create, validate, and analyze new dynamic measures of state partisanship,
state policy mood, and state political ideology. The measures of partisanship and policy …

This book is the first study specifically to investigate the extent to which US Supreme Court
justices alter the clarity of their opinions based on expected reactions from their audiences …

We examine whether public opinion leads Supreme Court justices to alter the content of
their opinions. We argue that when justices anticipate public opposition to their decisions …

Objective We analyze public views of the Supreme Court following the confirmation hearings
of Brett M. Kavanaugh. Methods We distributed an online survey days after the Senate …

Introduction This article presents a systematic literature review that follows the PRISMA and
PICOS guidelines to analyze current research trends on cognition, integrative complexity …

Does the Supreme Court care what the public thinks? For decades, published articles have
consistently reported a significant, positive relationship between public opinion and …

The separation-of-powers literature focuses on how the preferences of one branch constrain
the behavior of its counterparts. Yet, in much of this work, scholars do not address how …

Examples abound of Supreme Court justices writing opinions because their ideological
preferences or identity characteristics run counter to case outcomes, like when devoted …