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Peer-Reviewed Articles



​Badas, Alex. 2021. "The Chief Justice and Judicial Legitimacy: Evidence from the Influence of Public Opinion." Justice System Journal. (Ungated PDF)
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​Badas, Alex and Elizabeth N. Simas. Forthcoming. "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)
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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. (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)
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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.  (Ungated 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. (Ungated PDF)

Research Grants


​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

"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.