Jeffrey R. Lax

Department of Political Science

Columbia University

420 W 118th St. (MC 3320)
Department of Political Science
Columbia University
New York City, NY 10027
JRL2124 at columbia dot edu

• The Party or the Purse? Unequal Representation in the U.S. Senate, American Political Science Review, Forthcoming November 2019, with Justin Phillips and Adam Zelizer (Web Appendix included)
  
  
  
• Gay Rights in Congress: Public Opinion and (Mis)Representation, Public Opinion Quarterly, 2016, with Katherine Krimmel and Justin Phillips
  
  
• Are Survey Respondents Lying About Their Support for Same-Sex Marriage? Lessons from A Recent List Experiment, Public Opinion Quarterly, 2016, with Justin Phillips and Alissa Stollwerk
  
  
• Measuring the Political Salience of Supreme Court Cases, Journal of Law and Courts, Vol. 3(1): Spring 2015, with Tom Clark and Douglas Rice
  
  
• Bargaining Power in the Supreme Court: Evidence from Opinion Assignment and Vote Switching, Journal of Politics, July 2015, with Kelly T. Rader
  
  Previously titled "Tactical Opinion Assignment and Voting in the Supreme Court," Winner of the American Judicature Society Award for best paper on Law and Courts presented at a presented at a professional meeting in 2007
  
  
• Polarizing the Electoral Connection: Partisan Representation in Supreme Court Confirmation Politics, Journal of Politics, July 2015, with Jonathan Kastellec, Michael Malecki, and Justin Phillips
  
  
  
• Political Constraints on Legal Doctrine: How Hierarchy Shapes the Law, Journal of Politics, Vol. 74(3): July 2012
  
  
• The Democratic Deficit in the States, American Journal of Political Science, Vol. 56(1): January 2012, with Justin Phillips (includes online Supplemental Information section)
  
  Pi Sigma Alpha Award for Best Paper at the 2010 Annual Meeting of the Midwest Political Science Association, State Politics and Policy Quarterly Award for best paper on the U.S. states presented at a professional meeting in 2009
  
  
  
• The New Judicial Politics of Legal Doctrine, Annual Review of Political Science, Vol. 14: June 2011
  
  
• Public Opinion and Senate Confirmation of Supreme Court Nominees, Journal of Politics, Vol. 71(3): July 2010, with Jonathan Kastellec and Justin Phillips
  
  
• Legal Constraints on Supreme Court Decision Making: Do Jurisprudential Regimes Exist?, Journal of Politics, Vol. 71(2): April 2010, with Kelly Rader
  Response by Kritzer and Richards
  Rejoinder: The Three Prongs of a Jurisprudential Regimes Test
  

• Gay Rights in the States: Public Opinion and Policy Responsiveness, American Political Science Review, Vol. 103(3): August 2009, with Justin Phillips (supplemental results attached)
  
  
• Legal Doctrine on Collegial Courts, Journal of Politics, Vol. 71(3): July 2009, with Dimitri Landa (includes web appendix)
  
  
• How Should We Estimate Public Opinion in the States?, American Journal of Political Science, Vol. 53(1): January 2009, with Justin Phillips
  
  
• Case Selection and the Study of Judicial Politics, The Journal of Empirical Legal Studies, Vol. 5(3): September 2008, with Jonathan Kastellec
  
  
  
• Disagreements on Collegial Courts: A Case-Space Approach, The Journal of Constitutional Law, Vol. 10(2): January 2008, with Dimitri Landa
  
  
  
• Constructing Legal Rules on Appellate Courts, American Political Science Review, Vol 101(3): August 2007
  
  
• Bargaining and Opinion Assignment on the U.S. Supreme Court, The Journal of Law, Economics, and Organization, Vol. 23(2): Summer 2007, with Charles M. Cameron
  
  
• Courts, Congress, and Public Policy, Part I: The FDA, the Courts, and the Regulation of Tobacco, The Journal of Contemporary Legal Issues, Vol. 15(1): 2006, with Mathew D. McCubbins
  
  
• Courts, Congress, and Public Policy, Part II: The Impact of the Reapportionment Revolution on Urban and Rural Interests, The Journal of Contemporary Legal Issues, Vol. 15(1): 2006, with Mathew D. McCubbins
  
  
• Certiorari and Compliance in the Judicial Hierarchy: Discretion, Reputation, and the Rule of Four, Journal of Theoretical Politics, Vol. 15(1): 2003
  
  
• Fair Division: A Format for the Debate on the Format of Debates, PS: Political Science and Politics, Vol. 32(1): March 1999
   

• How Should We Estimate Sub-National Opinion with MRP?, with Justin Phillips
  

• [NEEDS UPDATE]

• Judicial Politics (Graduate)
• Political Inequality in the United States: Money, Party, Race, and Gender (Graduate)
• American Politics (Graduate)
• Dissertation Workshop (Graduate)
• Judicial Politics (Undergraduate)
• Logic of Collective Choice (Social Choice Theory, Undergraduate)
• The American Presidency (Undergraduate)