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She teaches courses on judicial process and behavior, civil liberties, law and public policy, and American state institutions. Professor Langer's research interests are in the areas of judicial politics and behavior, American state political institutions, public policy, and methodology. She has refereed journal articles appearing in Journal of Politics, American Journal of Political Science, Public Choice, Social Science Quarterly, American Politics Research, and State Politics and Policy Quarterly. Her book, Judicial Review in State Supreme Courts: A Comparative Study, is published with the State University of New York University Press. In her book, she examines the conditions under which justices on American state courts of last resort vote strategically or sincerely when they invoke the power of judicial review. She finds that justices alter their voting behavior depending on the ideological distance from the other branches of government, institutional rules, political settings, and the saliency of the policy. Most recently, she received a National Science Foundation Career Development Grant to evaluate the relationships among justices on state courts of last resort, legislators, governors, interest groups, and the public, using original data from court cases and personal elite interviews. To date, she has conducted over 400 personal interviews from ten different American states and she has data from mail surveys from political actors in each branch of state government from all 50 states. She also is working on projects that examine opinion assignments on American state courts of last resort, the impact of courts on policy adoption, as well as the impact of federalism on income inequality in the American states. Click here to see Professor Langer's More Detailed Web Page. Department of Political Science,
The University of Arizona |