Publications

2026 A Database of the United States Supreme Court’s Shadow Docket, 1993– 2025 Jonathan P. Kastellec · Journal of Law and Courts 5 2026 Does Party Affiliation Trump Appointing President? An Empirical Analysis of Trump’s Appellate Judges Jonathan P. Kastellec · Scholar only — 2026 Is the US Supreme Court Facing a Crisis of Democratic Legitimacy? A Review Article Jonathan P. Kastellec · Political Science Quarterly · Scholar only 2 2025 Mass versus Donor Attitudes on the Importance of Supreme Court Nominations Jonathan P. Kastellec · American Political Science Review 0 2025 Reviewing Fast or Slow: A Theory of Summary Reversal in the Judicial Hierarchy Jonathan P. Kastellec · American Journal of Political Science 1 2025 The Supreme Court: How Did We Get Here? And, What Comes Next Jonathan P. Kastellec · The ANNALS of the American Academy of Political and Social Science 8 2024 Is the U.S. Supreme Court Facing a Crisis of Democratic Legitimacy? A Review Essay Jonathan P. Kastellec · Political Science Quarterly 0 2024 Review of Boyd, Christina L., Paul M. Collins, Jr., and Lori A. Ringhand, Supreme Bias: Gender and Race in U.S. Supreme Court Confirmation Hearings. Stanford: Stanford University Press, 2023 Jonathan P. Kastellec · Congress & the Presidency 0 2023 Making the Supreme Court: The Politics of Appointments 1930-2020 Jonathan P. Kastellec · Oxford University Press · needs review 44 2022 A Theory of Policy Sabotage Jonathan P. Kastellec · Journal of Theoretical Politics 40 2022 The Politics of Accountability in Supreme Court Nominations: Voter Recall and Assessment of Senator Votes on Nominees Jonathan P. Kastellec · Political Science Research and Methods 16 2022 The Politics of Supreme Court Appointments Jonathan P. Kastellec · J. Fed. Cir. Hist. Soc'y · Scholar only — 2022 The Revolving Door in Judicial Politics: Former Clerks and Agenda Setting on the U.S. Supreme Court Jonathan P. Kastellec · American Politics Research 10 2021 ‘Conservatives may control the Supreme Court until the 2050s Jonathan P. Kastellec · Washington Post Monkey Cage blog — 2021 Race, Context, and Judging on the Courts of Appeals: Race-Based Panel Effects in Death Penalty Cases Jonathan P. Kastellec · Justice System Journal 52 2020 From Textbook Pluralism to Modern Hyper-Pluralism: Interest Groups and Supreme Court Nominations, 1930-2017 Jonathan P. Kastellec · Journal of Law and Courts 29 2020 How Amy Coney Barrett Could Change The Supreme Court Jonathan P. Kastellec · fivethirtyeight.com — 2020 Q&A: The Passing of Ruth Bader Ginsburg Jonathan P. Kastellec · Princeton School of Public and International Affairs — 2020 The Power of the Supreme Court Jonathan P. Kastellec · Before the Ballot Podcast, Princeton School of Public & International Affairs — 2019 Presidential Selection of Supreme Court Nominees: The Characteristics Approach Jonathan P. Kastellec · Quarterly Journal of Political Science 22 2018 How Courts Structure State-Level Representation Jonathan P. Kastellec · State Politics & Policy Quarterly 17 2018 Judicial Federalism and Representation Jonathan P. Kastellec · Journal of Law and Courts 17 2018 The Litmus Test for a Supreme Court Nominee Jonathan P. Kastellec · Vox’s Mischiefs of Faction blog — 2017 The Judicial Hierarchy: A Review Essay Jonathan P. Kastellec · Oxford Research Encyclopedia of Politics: politics.oxfordre.com 8 2016 Are Supreme Court Nominations a Move-the-Median Game? Jonathan P. Kastellec · American Political Science Review 46 2016 Empirically Evaluating the Counter-Majoritarian Difficulty: Public Opinion, State Policy, and Judicial Decisions Before Roe v. Wade Jonathan P. Kastellec · Journal of Law and Courts 20 2016 How American Voters Really Can Influence Merrick Garland’s Confirmation Battle Jonathan P. Kastellec · Washington Post Monkey Cage blog — 2016 How an Obama Supreme Court Nominee Could Win Confirmation in the Senate Jonathan P. Kastellec · Washington Post Monkey Cage blog — 2016 How Donald Trump’s Rise Complicates the Supreme Court Nomination Battle Jonathan P. Kastellec · Vox’s Mischiefs of Faction blog — 2016 Signaling and Counter-Signaling in the Judicial Hierarchy: An Empirical Analysis of En Banc Review Jonathan P. Kastellec · American Journal of Political Science 60 2016 The judicial hierarchy Jonathan P. Kastellec · Scholar only 45 2016 WWS Reacts: Obama Announces Nomination for Supreme Court Jonathan P. Kastellec · Woodrow Wilson School of Public & International Affairs — 2015 Partisan Cues Have a Significant Influence on the Public’s Support for the Supreme Court Jonathan P. Kastellec · The London School of Economics’ US Centre’s Daily Blog on American Politics and Policy — 2015 Polarizing the Electoral Connection: Partisan Representation in Supreme Court Confirmation Politics Jonathan P. Kastellec · The Journal of Politics 143 2015 Source Cues and Public Support for the Supreme Court Jonathan P. Kastellec · American Politics Research 123 2015 The Politics of Opinion Assignment and Authorship on the U.S. Court of Appeals: Evidence from Sexual Harassment Cases Jonathan P. Kastellec · The Journal of Legal Studies 42 2014 Judges Differ Substantially in their Likelihood of Granting Relief from a Death Sentence, but Several Features of the Federal Judicial Hierarchy Increase Legal Consistency Jonathan P. Kastellec · The London School of Economics’ US Centre’s Daily Blog on American Politics and Policy — 2014 The Interplay of Ideological Diversity, Dissents, and Discretionary Review in the Judicial Hierarchy: Evidence from Death Penalty Cases Jonathan P. Kastellec · The Journal of Politics 61 2014 Whistleblowing and Compliance in the Judicial Hierarchy Jonathan P. Kastellec · American Journal of Political Science 141 2013 Racial Diversity and Judicial Influence on Appellate Courts Jonathan P. Kastellec · American Journal of Political Science 399 2013 The Supreme Court and Percolation in the Lower Courts: An Optimal Stopping Model Jonathan P. Kastellec · The Journal of Politics 121 2013 Voting for Justices: Change and Continuity in Confirmation Voting 1937-2010 Jonathan P. Kastellec · The Journal of Politics 60 2012 The Role of Public Opinion in Supreme Court Confirmation Politics Jonathan P. Kastellec · New Directions in Judicial Politics 1 2011 Hierarchical and Collegial Politics on the U.S. Courts of Appeals Jonathan P. Kastellec · The Journal of Politics 151 2011 Panel Composition and Voting on the United States Courts of Appeals Over Time Jonathan P. Kastellec · Political Research Quarterly 102 2010 Public Opinion and Senate Confirmation of Supreme Court Nominees Jonathan P. Kastellec · The Journal of Politics 167 2010 The Statistical Analysis of Judicial Decisions and Legal Rules with Classification Trees Jonathan P. Kastellec · Journal of Empirical Legal Studies 114 2009 Beautiful Political Data Jonathan P. Kastellec · Beautiful Data: The Stories Behind Elegant Data Solutions 4 2009 CHAPTER NINETEEN Jonathan P. Kastellec · Edited by Toby Segaran and Jeff Hammerbacher · Scholar only — 2008 Case Selection and the Study of Judicial Politics? Jonathan P. Kastellec · Journal of Empirical Legal Studies 121