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Peer-Reviewed Articles

Badas, Alex and Katelyn E. Stauffer. 2023. "Gender and Ambition among Potential Law Clerks." Journal of Law and Courts. ​(PDF)
  • Received an honorable mention for the Best Conference Paper Award from the Law and Courts Section of the American Political Science Association.
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Badas, Alex, Billy Justus, and Siyu Li. 2022. "Assessing the Influence of Supreme Court's Shadow Docket in the Judicial Hierarchy." Justice System Journal. 43(4) 609-622. (PDF)

Badas, Alex and Billy Justus. 2022. "Media Attention and Deliberation on the Supreme Court." Political Research Quarterly. (PDF)

Artabe, Eugenia and Alex Badas. Accepted. "Measuring the Counter-Majoritarian Nature of Supreme Court Decisions." The Journal of Legal Studies. (PDF)  
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Badas, Alex. 2022. "Motivated Reasoning and Attitudes Towards Supreme Court Confirmation Hearings: Evidence from Five Nominations and an Experiment." Political Research Quarterly. (PDF)

Badas, Alex and Katelyn E. Stauffer. 2022. "Descriptive Representation, Judicial Nominations, and Perceptions of Presidential Accomplishment." Representation. (PDF)

​Badas, Alex and Elizabeth Simas. 2022. "The Supreme Court as an Electoral Issue: Evidence from Three Studies." Political Science Research and Methods. 10(1) 49-67. (PDF)
  • Received the Best Journal Article Award from the Law and Courts Section of the American Political Science Association. 
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Badas, Alex. 2021. "The Chief Justice and Judicial Legitimacy: Evidence from the Influence of Public Opinion." Justice System Journal. 42(2) 150-163. (PDF)

​Badas, Alex. 2020. "Elevation Potential Among Circuit Court Nominees and Its Effect on the Senate's Confirmation Behavior." Political Research Quarterly 73(1) 96-110. Download Elevation Estimates. (PDF)
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Badas, Alex. 2019. "Policy Disagreement and Judicial Legitimacy: Evidence from the 1937 Court Packing Plan." The Journal of Legal Studies 42(2) 377-408. (PDF)
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Badas, Alex. 2019. "The Applied Legitimacy Index: A New Approach to Measuring Judicial Legitimacy." Social Science Quarterly 100(5) 1848-1861. (PDF)

Badas, Alex and Katelyn E. Stauffer. 2019. "Voting for Women in Nonpartisan and Partisan Elections." Electoral Studies 57 245-255. (PDF)  

Badas, Alex and Katelyn E. Stauffer. 2019. "
Michelle Obama as a Political Symbol: Race, Gender and Public Opinion towards the First Lady." Politics & Gender 15(3) 431-459. (PDF)
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Badas, Alex and Katelyn E. Stauffer. 2018. "Someone Like Me: Descriptive Representation and Support for Supreme Court Nominees." Political Research Quarterly 71(4) 127–142.  (PDF)
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​Badas, Alex. 2016. "The Public's Motivated Response to Supreme Court Decision-Making." Justice System Journal 37(4) 318-330. (PDF)

Research Grants and Awards

Artinian Travel Award, Southern Political Science Association, 2022. $500
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​New Faculty Research Grant, University of Houston. 2019. $6000.
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Research Progress Grant, College of Liberal Arts and Social Sciences, University of Houston. 2019. $4000.

Research in the Media

"Texas Election Could Determine Fate of Death Row Inmates." Newsweek. October 29, 2022.

"Descriptive Representation in Supreme Court Nominations." The Niskanen Center: The Science of Politics Podcast. April 6, 2022. 

"How Court Nominations Polarize Interest Groups and Voters." The Niskanen Center: The Science of Politics Podcast. October 21, 2020. 

"Voters punish senators when they don’t like their Supreme Court confirmation votes." The Washington Post: The Monkey Cage. September 28, 2020. 
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"Why Warren Can't Count on a `Women's Vote.'" ABC News: FiveThirtyEight. September 5, 2019. 
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Research Presentations

American Political Science Association Annual Meeting: 2014

Midwest Political Science Association Annual Meeting: 2014-2017

Law and Courts Section of the American Political Science Association Virtual Brownbag: 2021

Robert H. Jackson Center: 2022

Southern Political Science Association Annual Meeting: 2022

Texas American Politics Symposium: 2019

Utah Valley University Center for Constitutional Studies: 2021

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