I am a Ph.D. candidate in the Department of Political Science at Columbia University. In the fall I will join the faculty of the Princeton Politics department as an assistant professor.  My main research area is judicial politics, but I have broad interests in the study of American politics. My dissertation, "Hierarchical and Collegial Politics on the U.S. Courts of Appeals," analyzes the dynamics of collegial decision making on three-judge panels of the U.S. Courts of Appeals, with a particular focus on how the judicial hierarchy interacts with collegiality to influence individual judicial voting.  I also have research interests in political methodology and formal theory, and have done research on congressional elections, public opinion and Supreme Court nominations.  Along with Jeff Lax and Justin Phillips, I am working on a series of papers that investigates the relationship between public opinion on senatorial roll call voting on Supreme Court nominees.

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Columbia University

Department of Political Science

420 W. 118th St.

New York, NY 10027

jpk2004@columbia.edu

 

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