{"id":18,"date":"2018-03-02T16:47:49","date_gmt":"2018-03-02T16:47:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/scholarblogs.emory.edu\/jeffreystaton\/?page_id=18"},"modified":"2025-02-26T20:51:31","modified_gmt":"2025-02-26T20:51:31","slug":"welcome","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/scholarblogs.emory.edu\/jeffreystaton\/","title":{"rendered":"Welcome"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Hello! I do research and teach in the fields of comparative politics and law and politics in the <a href=\"http:\/\/polisci.emory.edu\/home\/\">Department of Political Science<\/a> at Emory University, where I am a professor and Director of the Center for the Study of Law and Politics. I am also the Judiciary Project Manager for <a href=\"http:\/\/v-dem.net\">Varieties of Democracy<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>On this page you will find descriptions of past and on-going research, which focuses on the challenges of holding state officials to domestic and international legal limits on their authority through the use of judicial review.\u00a0<span style=\"font-size: 1rem\">I am particularly interested in how judges manage informational and power asymmetries via both the careful construction of legal text and direct communication with the public through the media. I am currently writing a book that considers the conditions, if there are any, under which we\u00a0can expect courts to be bulwarks of democracy.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 1rem\">I am also committed to building collaborative research communities, believing that more and better work can be done in groups of linked research teams. Please visit my collaborative research page for examples.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span><span style=\"font-size: 1rem\">My research has appeared in the \u00a0<\/span><em>American<span style=\"font-size: 1rem\"> Political Science Review, <\/span><\/em><em style=\"font-size: 1rem\">American Journal of Political Science, Journal of Politics, International Organization, Journal of Law and Courts, International Studies Quarterly, among other journals.<\/em><span style=\"font-size: 1rem\">. My books, C<a href=\"https:\/\/www.cambridge.org\/core\/books\/can-courts-be-bulwarks-of-democracy\/8D4AB7AED815843CD0B373D0512CB048\">an Courts be Bulwarks of Democracy?<\/a> (co-authored with Christopher Reenock and Jordan Holsinger) and <\/span><\/span><span><a style=\"font-size: 1rem\" href=\"http:\/\/www.cambridge.org\/us\/academic\/subjects\/politics-international-relations\/comparative-politics\/judicial-power-and-strategic-communication-mexico?format=HB&amp;isbn=9780521195218#fjqccZId4GafbbuX.97\">Judicial Power and Strategic Communication in Mexico<\/a><span style=\"font-size: 1rem\"> were both published by <\/span><em style=\"font-size: 1rem\">Cambridge University Press<\/em><span style=\"font-size: 1rem\">.\u00a0<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hello! I do research and teach in the fields of comparative politics and law and politics in the Department of Political Science at Emory University, where I am a professor and Director of the Center for the Study of Law and Politics. I am also the Judiciary Project Manager for Varieties of Democracy. On this &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/scholarblogs.emory.edu\/jeffreystaton\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Welcome&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5196,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-18","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/P9IdWO-i","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/scholarblogs.emory.edu\/jeffreystaton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/18","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/scholarblogs.emory.edu\/jeffreystaton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/scholarblogs.emory.edu\/jeffreystaton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scholarblogs.emory.edu\/jeffreystaton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5196"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scholarblogs.emory.edu\/jeffreystaton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=18"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/scholarblogs.emory.edu\/jeffreystaton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/18\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":727,"href":"https:\/\/scholarblogs.emory.edu\/jeffreystaton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/18\/revisions\/727"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/scholarblogs.emory.edu\/jeffreystaton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}