So Thrilled to have this work with Udi Sommer and Olivier Kamoun on perceived benefits and support for Change to High Courts in Israel and the US published online in Journal of Law and Courts! Available via open access.

Shocking! Biden is now in favor of institutional reforms to the Court? Public support for change may actually mean something! Still, changing life tenure in Art III with legislation is like putting a band aid on a gaping wound that will be subject to legitimate. const challenge. (1/3)

IU Media Communications Write-up on my polisky book: Constitutional Powers and Politics college.indiana.edu/newsroom/fac...

A professor over at the law school referred to me as the "peanut butter cup" of judicial politics when commenting on my poli sci book about public support for institutional change: Favorite Professional Complement Ever!

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Frustrated by originalist conceptions of the constitution chipping away at our rights? Why not have a meaningful debate about changing the way gov institutions can & should work for citizens today? There’s more support than you may expect! Jefferson was a fan of periodic revision. #Thinkforourselves

⚖️ Citing theory on legitimacy (law and pol sci) proced justice/motivated reasoning (psych) & prospect theory (behav econ), I study how people think about auth and fundamental gov change in an effort to push understandings forward. Note: There’s more suppt for change than most might expect. U Va Pr

Serious quest re: inst change Malapport in the Senate gets replicated in the EC, so why do we continue to privilege regional(state) representation over other kinds in our tech. advanced society? Are there smart (nondevisive) alterns. that might be serve democ better? Creative ans encouraged! Polisky

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Trip to see John Waite at Cincinnati’s Memorial Hall.

THINGS WE DIDN'T DO: - Start The Fire - Shoot The Deputy THINGS WE DID DO: - Built This City - Shot The Sheriff THINGS WE WANT TO DO: - Break Free - Hold Your Hand THINGS WE WILL DO: - Rock You - Survive -Anything For Love THINGS WE WON'T DO: - That

So excited - F1 morning followed by solo trip to Cincinnati for a concert, trip to the zoo, and outing to Jungle Jim’s international market that I have heard so much about…

My article "Measuring the Countermajoritian Nature of Supreme Court Decisions" with Eugenia Artabe is now published in the Journal of Legal Studies. www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/10.1086/...

First annual F1 brunch a success on this daylight savings Sunday. Race in Brazil was fun with two of my favorite drivers finishing second and third even if my #1 was out in the formation lap. Yikes!

Citing theory on legitimacy (law and polisky), proced justice/motivated reasoning (psych) & prospect theory (behav econ), I study how people think about auth and fundamental gov change in an effort to push understandings forward. Note: There’s more suppt for change than most might expect. U Va/Nov.

My book is available on Amazon today …. Can a polisky author knock Brittney Spears off the bestseller list? Only time will tell.

Bourbon selection Old Talbot Inn, Bardstown, KY.

One of the best things about living in Indiana is it’s proximity to the Bourbon Trail in Kentucky!

Constitutional Powers and Politics - UVA Press (virginia.edu) Fresh off the Press! A substantive summary thread for those interested! Feel free to share with any polisky or law types who care about public opinion on authority and fundamental gov change -- and also to assign in class (only $32) 1/15

🎉 Today is finally the release date for our new book Supreme Bias: Gender and Race in U.S. Supreme Court Confirmation Hearings (@stanfordpress; w/ Paul Collins & @Lring86)! While I love the book’s cover, I’m also very excited for you to see what is inside. Here’s a preview 🧵: 1/

Thank you book fairy! Polisky

Excited for First Monday? Check out our blog post at 3Streams regarding how collegiality may influence how a new set of cases are resolved.

Citing theory on legitimacy (law and polisky), proced justice/motivated reasoning (psych) & prospect theory (behav econ), I study how people think about auth and fundamental gov change in an effort to push understandings forward. Note: There’s more suppt for change than most might expect. U Va/Nov.

www.upress.virginia.edu/title/5985/ Are you a con law professor looking for empirical evidence about how citizens view the novel exercise of government authority? Maybe your just someone curious about how individuals think about potentially risky institutional change. If so, here’s the book for you!

Forthcoming University of Virginia Press November 2023.