Justin J. Norris
Research
Publications
After Cloture: Vote Switching, Credit Claiming, and Position Taking in the United States Senate. 2018. Congress and the Presidency (with Brett N. Odom and Chase B. Meyer).
Under Review
- Partisans versus Independents: Investigating the Role of Partisanship in Opinion Formation for Interest Group Regulations.
- Moving on Up: Party Loyalty and Committee Promotion in Minority to Majority Transitions in the House of Representatives (with Brett N. Odom and Chase B. Meyer)
- Beyond the Religious Right: Investigating the Influence of Religious Commitment on the Policy Preferences of African Americans.
Papers in Preparation
- Contributing to the National Discourse: Investigating the Motivations Behind National Communications Strategies for Presidential Candidates in the Invisible Primary
- Elections in the Local Context: Investigating the Effects of Direct Democracy on State Supreme Court Elections (with Allison Trochesset)
- Gender and Elite Support in Judicial Elections (with Allison Trochesset)
- Persistently Partisan Procedurals: The Influence of Party on Individual Procedural Votes in the U.S. House of Representatives (With Matthew S. Jennings and Brett N. Odom)
- Wielding Executive Power: Ideological Distance, Agency Heads, and the Expansion of the Presidency through Executive Power
- The Impact of State Government Political Ideology on Civil Rights Litigation in District Court
Conference Presentations
- Welcome to Thunderdome: Utilizing Issue Positions to Estimate Intraparty Ideological Competition for Presidential Candidates Running for the Party Nomination in the 1999-2011 Invisible Primaries. Paper presented at the 2018 Annual Meeting of the Southern Political Science Association.
- Bayesian Estimation of Causal Treatment Effects with Informative Priors. Paper presented at the 2017 Annual Meeting of the Society for Political Methodology (With L. Jason Anastasopoulos).
- Follow the Money: Integrating Competing Theories to Explain Donor Behavior in Presidential Primaries and the Resulting Implications for Campaign Coffers in the Invisible Primary. Paper presented at the 2017 Annual Meeting of the Midwest Political Science Association
- In the Arena: Assessing the Impact of Nationally Televised Debates on Presidential Campaign Fundraising During the Invisible Primary. Paper presented at the 2017 Annual Meeting of the Southern Political Science Association
- Using Committee Seats as Carrots in Exchange for Party Support. Paper to be presented at the 2016 Annual Meeting of the Midwest Political Science Association (With Chase Meyer and Brett N. Odom).
- Beyond the Religious Right: Investigating the Influence of Religious Commitment on the Policy Preferences of African Americans. Paper presented at the 2015 Annual Meeting of the Midwest Political Science Association
- Religion or Ideology? Investigating the Influence of Religious Commitment on Policy Preferences. Paper presented at the 2015 Annual Meeting of the Southern Political Science Association
- Weighty Discourse or Cheap Talk? Disentangling the Effects of Campaign Rhetoric against the ‘Special Interests.’ Paper presented at the 2014 Annual Meeting of the Southern Political Science Association
- Disaster Politics: Federalism, Agency Interaction, and Politics in Times of Crisis. Paper presented at the 2010 Annual Meeting of the Minnesota Political Science Association