Peer-Reviewed Articles
Badas, Alex. Conditionally Accepted. "The Chief Justice and Judicial Legitimacy: Evidence from the Influence of Public Opinion." Justice System Journal.
Badas, Alex and Elizabeth N. Simas. Conditionally Accepted. "The Supreme Court as an Electoral Issue: Evidence from Three Studies." Political Science Research and Methods. (Working paper 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. (Ungated PDF)
Badas, Alex. 2019. "Policy Disagreement and Judicial Legitimacy: Evidence from the 1937 Court Packing Plan." The Journal of Legal Studies 42(2) 377-408. (Ungated PDF)
Badas, Alex. 2019. "The Applied Legitimacy Index: A New Approach to Measuring Judicial Legitimacy." Social Science Quarterly 100(5) 1848-1861. (Ungated PDF)
Badas, Alex and Katelyn E. Stauffer. 2019. "Voting for Women in Nonpartisan and Partisan Elections." Electoral Studies 57 245-255. (Ungated 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. (Ungated PDF)
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. (Ungated PDF)
Badas, Alex. 2016. "The Public's Motivated Response to Supreme Court Decision-Making." Justice System Journal 37(4) 318-330. (Ungated PDF)
Research Grants
New Faculty Research Grant, University of Houston. 2019. $6000.
Research Progress Grant, College of Liberal Arts and Social Sciences, University of Houston. 2019. $4000.
Research in the Media
"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.
"Why Warren Can't Count on a `Women's Vote.'" ABC News: FiveThirtyEight. September 5, 2019.
"Voters punish senators when they don’t like their Supreme Court confirmation votes." The Washington Post: The Monkey Cage. September 28, 2020.
"Why Warren Can't Count on a `Women's Vote.'" ABC News: FiveThirtyEight. September 5, 2019.
