Jonathan P. Kastellec

CONTACT

INFORMATION

Department of Political Science                              

Columbia University                                                       

420 West 118th Street, 7th Floor                                    

New York, NY 10027

email: jpk2004@columbia.edu

www.columbia.edu/~jpk2004/

 

 

EDUCATION

Ph.D. Program in Political Science, August 2002-Present

Columbia University, New York, NY

Dissertation: Collegial and Hierarchical Politics in the U.S. Courts of 
   Appeals

Advisors: David Epstein and Jeffrey Lax

 

M.Phil, Political Science, September 2006

Columbia University, New York, NY

 

M.A., Political Science, February 2004  

Columbia University, New York, NY

 

B.A., magna cum laude, Government and English, May 2000

Georgetown University, Washington, DC

 

TEACHING AND RESEARCH INTERESTS

American Government:  Judicial Politics, Congress, Public Opinion

Methodology:  Quantitative Analysis, Formal Theory, Statistical Graphics

 

 

PUBLICATIONS

"Panel Composition and Judicial Compliance on the U.S. Courts of Appeals." 2007. The Journal of Law, Economics & Organization, 23(2): 421-41.

"Using Graphs Instead of Tables to Improve the Presentation of Empirical Results in Political Science," with Eduardo Leoni. 2007. Perspectives on Politics. 5(4): 755-71.

"Predicting and Dissecting the Seats-Votes Curve in the 2006 U.S. House Election," with Andrew Gelman and Jamie Chandler. 2008.  PS: Political Science & Politics. 41(1): 139-145.

"Case Selection and the Study of Judicial Politics", with Jeffrey Lax. Forthcoming. Journal of Empirical Legal Studies

The Playing Field Shifts: Predicting the Seats-Votes Curve in the 2008 U.S. House Elections,” with Jamie Chandler and Andrew Gelman. Forthcoming. PS: Political Science & Politics. 41

 

CONFERENCE AND SEMINAR PRESENTATIONS

"Case Selection and the Study of Judicial Politics." (with Jeffrey Lax). Presented at the2006 Annual Meeting of the American Political Science Association, Philadelphia, PA, August 31-September. 3, and the 2007 Annual Conference on Empirical Legal Studies, New York, NY, November 9-10.

"Classification Trees: A Suggested New Method for Improving the Empirical Modeling of Law." Paper presented at the New York University Conference on Modeling Law, New York, NY. October 28-29, 2005.

"Legal Rules and the Classification of Supreme Court Decisions." Paper presented at the 2005 Annual Meeting of the American Political Science Association, Washington, DC, September 1-4.

"Panel Composition and Judicial Compliance on the U.S. Courts of Appeals."  Paper presented at the 2005 Annual Meeting of the Midwest Political Science Association, Chicago, IL, April 7-10.

WORKING PAPERS

"Panel Composition and Voting on the United States Courts of Appeals Over Time," under review.

"The Structure of Legal Rules and the Analysis of Judicial Decisions"

"State Public Opinion and Senatorial Consideration of Supreme Court Nominees," with Jeffrey Lax and Justin Phillips

“Elite Wars? Analyzing Support for the Iraq, Vietnam and Korean Wars," with Jamie Chandler and Andrew Gelman

 

ACADEMIC EXPERIENCE

Instructor, Constitutional Law, Columbia University Summer High School Program, Summer 2005

Teaching Assistant,  Introduction to American Politics and Government, Professor Judith Russell, Fall 2003

Teaching Assistant, Judicial Politics, Professor Jeffrey Lax, Spring 2006

Teaching Assistant, Research Topics in Game Theory, Professor David Epstein, Fall 2007

Research Assistant, Professor Robert Erikson, September 2004-May 2006

Research Assistant, Professor Charles Cameron, May-August 2003

Co-coordinator, American and Comparative Politics Graduate Student Seminar, Columbia University, 2003-2005

AWARDS AND FELLOWSHIPS

GSAS Fellowship, Columbia University Graduate Program in Political Science, 2002-2003, 2003-2004, 2004-2005, 2005-2006, 2006-2007, 2007-2008, 2008-2009

GSAS Summer Fellowship, Columbia University Graduate Program in Political Science, 2004, 2006

Empirical Implications of Theoretical Models (EITM) Institute, Washington University, 2005

JOURNAL SERVICE

Editorial Assistant:  Political Analysis (2004-2006)

Reviewer: Journal of Politics, Political Analysis, American Politics Research