MPSA

57-9 Judicial Decision-making
Fri at 11:30 am
11:30 Chair, William C. Green, Morehead State
University
w.green@moreheadstate.edu
11:35 Strategy and Collegiality at the U.S. District
Courts
Maxwell H. H. Mak, CUNY John Jay College of
Criminal Justice
mmak@jjay.cuny.edu
Andrew H. Sidman*, CUNY John Jay College of
Criminal Justice
asidman@jjay.cuny.edu
11:45 The Impact of Environmental Public Opinion on
the Strategic Decisions of State Supreme Court
Judges
Mahalley D Allen, California State University-Chico
mdallen@csuchico.edu
Justin A. Tucker, California State University-
Fullerton
justintucker@fullerton.edu
11:56 Utilization of a Choice Set of Precedents from
Merit Briefs: A Test on State High Courts
Benjamin J. Kassow, University of North Dakota
benjamin.kassow@business.und.edu
12:07 Writing for the Audience: Judicial Framing in
Death Penalty Decisions
Michael Kenneth Romano, Shenandoah University
mromano@su.edu
Todd A. Curry, University of Texas-El Paso
tacurry@utep.edu
12:18 Contingent Decision-Making: How State Supreme
Court Judges Respond to Polarization Across
Retention Regimes
Kyla K. Stepp, Central Michigan University
kyla.stepp@cmich.edu
Kevin Gerald Lorentz, Wayne State University
kglorent@gmail.com
12:29 Disc., Allison P. Harris, Princeton University
apharris@princeton.edu
12:40 Audience Discussion
57-10 U.S. Supreme Court: Process and Procedure
Fri at 11:30 am
11:30 Chair, Eileen Braman, Indiana University-
Bloomington
ebraman@indiana.edu
11:35 Do Law Clerks Influence Voting on the Supreme
Court?
Adam Chilton*, University of Chicago
adamchilton@uchicago.edu
Jacob Goldin*, Stanford University
DONOTEMAILjsgoldin@law.stanford.edu
Kyle Rozema*, Northwestern University
kyle.rozema@law.northwestern.edu
Maya Sen, Harvard University
maya_sen@hks.harvard.edu
11:48 Changing the Shape of the Bench: How the
Physical Shape of the Bench Influences Oral
Argument
Timothy R. Johnson, University of Minnesota-Twin
Cities
trj@umn.edu
Ryan James Owens, University of Wisconsin-
Madison
rjowens@wisc.edu
12:01 The Chief Justice: Democratic Leadership in the
Hidden Branch
David Root, University of Indianapolis
rootd@uindy.edu
12:14 The Value of a Handshake: How A Simple
Gesture Enhances Collegiality on the Court
Ryan Christopher Black*, Michigan State
University
rcblack@msu.edu
Ryan James Owens, University of Wisconsin-
Madison
rjowens@wisc.edu
Rachel A. Schutte, Michigan State University
rschutte@msu.edu
12:27 Disc., Eileen Braman, Indiana University-
Bloomington
ebraman@indiana.edu
Disc., Amanda Clare Bryan, Loyola University
Chicago
abryan2@luc.edu
12:40 Audience Discussion
61-5 Politics of the Affordable Care Act
Fri at 11:30 am
11:30 Chair, Deborah E Ward, Columbia University in
the City of New York
dew16@caa.columbia.edu
11:35 Can Communication about Policy Benefits Cut
through Symbolic Politics?: Experimental
Evidence from the Affordable Care Act
Jacqueline Chattopadhyay, University of North
Carolina-Charlotte
jchattop@uncc.edu
11:45 Convincing the ‘Young Invincibles’:
Understanding State Variation in Young Adult
Participation in the Affordable Care Act
Timothy Herbert Callaghan, Texas A & M
University-College Station
callaghan@sph.tamhsc.edu
11:56 Examining ACA Implementation in Colorado and
Use of Preventative Care
Michael Hatch, American University
michha88@gmail.com
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