Research

Journal Articles

Chapters in Edited Volumes

  • Rivero, Albert H., and Ellen M. Key. "Congress and the Courts." In Research Handbook of Judicial Politics. Michael D. Fix and Matthew D. Montgomery, eds. Edward Elgar.

Working Papers

  • "Consensus Cues and Judicial Legitimacy: U.S. Supreme Court Interventions in Polarized Elections." With Joshua Boston, Christopher N. Krewson, Marcy Shieh, and Andrew R. Stone. Under review.
  • "Promoting a Diverse Bench: An Analysis of Elite Messaging about Descriptive Representation." With Jaclyn Kaslovsky and Andrew R. Stone. Under review.
  • "Partisan Hacks? How Election Cases Polarize the Supreme Court." Under review.
  • "Horizontal Legal Accountability and Mass Perceptions of U.S. Democracy." With Joshua Boston, Christopher N. Krewson, Marcy Shieh, and Andrew R. Stone.
  • "Oral Argument, Procedural Fairness, and Public Evaluations of the U.S. Supreme Court." With Joshua Boston, Christopher N. Krewson, Marcy Shieh, and Andrew R. Stone.
  • "The Effect of Judges' Religious Diversity on Support for Religious Liberty Claims."  With Amy Lakeman.  Presented at the 2019 Annual Meeting of the Midwest Political Science Association and the 2022 Annual Meeting of the American Political Science Association.
  • "The Political Supply and Demand of Federal Litigation." Presented at the 2021 Annual Meetings of the American Political Science Association and the Midwest Political Science Association and the 2022 Annual Meeting of the Southern Political Science Association.
  • "Difference-Splitting Voting: Middle-Ground Votes at the U.S. Supreme Court." An earlier version of this project was presented at the 2023 Annual Meeting of the Midwest Political Science Association.
  • "Congress and the Courts of Appeals." Presented at the 2024 Annual Meetings of the Southern Political Science Association and Midwest Political Science Association.

In Progress

  • The Politics of Principles: Elite Legal Rhetoric and Americans' Attitudes toward the Courts. With Andrew R. Stone. Book project.
  • Our Thirteen Courts: Law, Politics, and Geography in the Courts of Appeals. Book project. Portions of this project were presented at the 2020 Annual Meeting of the American Political Science Association. An earlier version of this project was presented at the 2020 Annual Meeting of the Southern Political Science Association.
  • "Does the Supreme Court Constrain Lower Court Behavior?"
  • "Legal Reasoning in Opinions of the United States Supreme Court, 1946-2022." With Christopher N. Krewson and Andrew R. Stone. Presented at the 2024 Annual Meeting of the American Political Science Association.
  • "A Government that Looks like America: Public Attitudes about Descriptive Representation across Offices." With Jaclyn Kaslovsky and Andrew R. Stone.