Jonathan P. Kastellec
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CONTACT INFORMATION |
Department of Political Science
email: jpk2004@columbia.edu |
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EDUCATION |
Ph.D. Program in
Political Science, August 2002-Present Dissertation: Collegial and Hierarchical Politics in the Appeals
Advisors: David Epstein and Jeffrey Lax M.Phil, Political
Science, September 2006 M.A., Political Science,
February 2004 B.A., magna cum laude,
Government and English, May 2000 |
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TEACHING AND RESEARCH INTERESTS |
American
Government: Judicial Politics, Congress, Public Opinion Methodology:
Quantitative Analysis, Formal Theory, Statistical Graphics |
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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 |
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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, "Classification
Trees: A Suggested New Method for Improving the Empirical Modeling of
Law." Paper presented at the New York University Conference on Modeling
Law, "Legal Rules and the
Classification of Supreme Court Decisions." Paper presented at the 2005
Annual Meeting of the American Political Science Association, "Panel Composition
and Judicial Compliance on the |
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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 |
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ACADEMIC EXPERIENCE |
Instructor, Constitutional
Law, 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 |
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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, Empirical Implications of
Theoretical Models (EITM) Institute, |
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JOURNAL SERVICE |
Editorial Assistant:
Political Analysis (2004-2006) Reviewer: Journal of
Politics, Political Analysis, American Politics Research |