Jordan Carr Peterson
Biographic Data
| ID | 4115098 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Jordan Carr Peterson |
| GIVEN NAMES | Jordan Carr |
| FAMILY NAME | Peterson |
| SIGNATURE | PETERSON J C |
| AFFILIATIONS | North Carolina State University |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-3436-9263 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 13 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 79 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 13 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2015 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 4 |
The legacy of American territorial imperialism and its consequences for civil rights
Despite the ubiquity of maps presenting 48 contiguous states, Alaska, and Hawaiʻi, the territorial expanse of land subject to the laws of the United States comprises more than that. The federal government also controls and administers island territories in the Caribbean and in the Pacific. Though they exist in constitutional limbo, US territories retain certain autonomy over local affairs. The policy portfolio of territorial governments thus incl…
Public Perceptions of Corporate Position-Taking on Abortion and Transgender Rights
Corporations regularly express preferences on questions of public policy. This can occur through costly actions like lobbying public officials, contributing money to candidates, and engaging in litigation. One less costly way of expressing policy preferences is by issuing statements of support for or in opposition to a given policy or government practice. In this article, we examine public perceptions of corporate position-taking to determine the…
Implementing Equality
Because the civil rights movement accomplished many successes via litigation, advocacy communities regard courts as bulwarks against the legal enshrinement of oppression targeting vulnerable minorities. Advocates of LGBTQ equality are no different, identifying the judiciary as critical to eradicating discrimination on the basis of sexual orientation. Standing alone, however, Supreme Court holdings revising the scope of civil rights for sexual min…
The Politicized Enforcement of Laws Criminalizing Executive Branch Conflicts of Interest
There exist a host of separate federal statutes governing conflicts of interest for employees in the federal executive branch. These are supplemented by additional administrative rules promulgated by the Office of Government Ethics. Most provisions regulate financial self‐dealing via the imposition of criminal sanctions. In this article, I analyze the enforcement of public ethics law in the executive branch in three ways: first, by examining the …
The Personal Finances of United States Supreme Court Justices and Decision-making in Economic Litigation
What explains probusiness judicial decision-making? Existing scholarship focuses on federal judges acting strategically or ideologically, but this represents only some factors affecting judicial behavior. Our objective is to develop a theory of judicial decision-making in economic litigation based on judges’ personal finances. We test this approach by considering how Supreme Court justices’ investments impact decision-making in cases involving bu…
The Mixed Effects of Candidate Visits on Campaign Donations in the 2020 Presidential Election
Recent scholarship on the effect of candidate visits in presidential elections has found that appearances by candidates appear to mobilize both supporters and opponents. Specifically, in the 2016 presidential election, donations to campaigns of the visiting presidential candidates increased, but—in the case of Republican nominee Donald Trump—so did donations to his opponent, Hillary Clinton. In this paper, we extend this research by assessing the…
Mobilization and Countermobilization
Political scientists studying the impact of campaign visits by presidential candidates have come to conflicting conclusions on whether campaigns change voter behavior in even small ways. In this article, we argue that, while scholars have generally interpreted campaign effect results as being unidirectional, the traditional metrics of such effects—polls and aggregate vote results—inherently reflect a net effect combining any potential mobilizatio…
The Private Interests of Public Officials
Legislators' private financial holdings affect policy decisions. Due to financial self‐interest, we theorize that legislators whose personal investment portfolios include equities from firms affected by proposed policies vote for legislation that benefits those firms. We also theorize that legislators with greater personal exposure to equity investments support policies that benefit equities markets generally. We create a novel data set of legisl…
Trends
Do attitudes of elected officials toward racial issues change when the issues are portrayed as economic? Traditionally, scholars have presented Confederate symbols as primarily a racial issue: elites supporting their eradication from public life tend to emphasize the association of Confederate symbols with slavery and institutionalized racism, while those elected officials who oppose the removal of Confederate symbols often cite the heritage of w…
The Mask of Neutrality
Do judges ruling on redistricting litigation increase electoral competition in congressional races while simultaneously drawing districts favoring their party's congressional candidates? I offer a novel theory of judicial partisan calculation, arguing that judges draw more competitive districts than legislatures or commissions, but that judge‐drawn districts favor the electoral interests of their copartisans. These claims are reconcilable because…
Packing the Courts
What explains expansions to the federal judiciary? Whereas existing research focuses on unified government as an explanation, we argue ideological proximity between institutions involved in the expansion process more accurately predicts judicial expansions. We examine whether Congress chose to add seats to each federal district or circuit court annually from 1937 to 2012 and find expansions are more likely when (1) the ideological distance betwee…
Their Boot in Our Face No Longer? Administrative Sectionalism and Resistance to Federal Authority in the U.S. South
What explains state agency resistance to actions taken by their federal counterparts? And do sectional tensions make state bureaucratic nonacquiescence particularly likely in the U.S. South? We theorize that state resistance to federal administrative policy is more likely among Southern state bureaus due to administrative sectionalism. We argue that state agencies can and do resist federal administrative orders independent of other political cons…
Letting Down the Ladder or Shutting the Door
In October 2012 the Danish Socialist People's Party chose Annette Vilhelmsen as its leader. With her ascension to power, women simultaneously headed all three of Denmark's governing parties for the first time. Though an exclusively female-led coalition government remains exceptional, in developed democracies the number of female prime ministers and party leaders has grown in recent years. Since 2000, women have governed in Denmark, Germany, Finla…
Letting Down the Ladder or Shutting the Door
In October 2012 the Danish Socialist People's Party chose Annette Vilhelmsen as its leader. With her ascension to power, women simultaneously headed all three of Denmark's governing parties for the first time. Though an exclusively female-led coalition government remains exceptional, in developed democracies the number of female prime ministers and party leaders has grown in recent years. Since 2000, women have governed in Denmark, Germany, Finla…
Trends
Do attitudes of elected officials toward racial issues change when the issues are portrayed as economic? Traditionally, scholars have presented Confederate symbols as primarily a racial issue: elites supporting their eradication from public life tend to emphasize the association of Confederate symbols with slavery and institutionalized racism, while those elected officials who oppose the removal of Confederate symbols often cite the heritage of w…
The Private Interests of Public Officials
Legislators' private financial holdings affect policy decisions. Due to financial self‐interest, we theorize that legislators whose personal investment portfolios include equities from firms affected by proposed policies vote for legislation that benefits those firms. We also theorize that legislators with greater personal exposure to equity investments support policies that benefit equities markets generally. We create a novel data set of legisl…
Mobilization and Countermobilization
Political scientists studying the impact of campaign visits by presidential candidates have come to conflicting conclusions on whether campaigns change voter behavior in even small ways. In this article, we argue that, while scholars have generally interpreted campaign effect results as being unidirectional, the traditional metrics of such effects—polls and aggregate vote results—inherently reflect a net effect combining any potential mobilizatio…
The Mask of Neutrality
Do judges ruling on redistricting litigation increase electoral competition in congressional races while simultaneously drawing districts favoring their party's congressional candidates? I offer a novel theory of judicial partisan calculation, arguing that judges draw more competitive districts than legislatures or commissions, but that judge‐drawn districts favor the electoral interests of their copartisans. These claims are reconcilable because…
Their Boot in Our Face No Longer? Administrative Sectionalism and Resistance to Federal Authority in the U.S. South
What explains state agency resistance to actions taken by their federal counterparts? And do sectional tensions make state bureaucratic nonacquiescence particularly likely in the U.S. South? We theorize that state resistance to federal administrative policy is more likely among Southern state bureaus due to administrative sectionalism. We argue that state agencies can and do resist federal administrative orders independent of other political cons…
Public Perceptions of Corporate Position-Taking on Abortion and Transgender Rights
Corporations regularly express preferences on questions of public policy. This can occur through costly actions like lobbying public officials, contributing money to candidates, and engaging in litigation. One less costly way of expressing policy preferences is by issuing statements of support for or in opposition to a given policy or government practice. In this article, we examine public perceptions of corporate position-taking to determine the…
Letting Down the Ladder or Shutting the Door
In October 2012 the Danish Socialist People's Party chose Annette Vilhelmsen as its leader. With her ascension to power, women simultaneously headed all three of Denmark's governing parties for the first time. Though an exclusively female-led coalition government remains exceptional, in developed democracies the number of female prime ministers and party leaders has grown in recent years. Since 2000, women have governed in Denmark, Germany, Finla…
Packing the Courts
What explains expansions to the federal judiciary? Whereas existing research focuses on unified government as an explanation, we argue ideological proximity between institutions involved in the expansion process more accurately predicts judicial expansions. We examine whether Congress chose to add seats to each federal district or circuit court annually from 1937 to 2012 and find expansions are more likely when (1) the ideological distance betwee…
Their Boot in Our Face No Longer? Administrative Sectionalism and Resistance to Federal Authority in the U.S. South
What explains state agency resistance to actions taken by their federal counterparts? And do sectional tensions make state bureaucratic nonacquiescence particularly likely in the U.S. South? We theorize that state resistance to federal administrative policy is more likely among Southern state bureaus due to administrative sectionalism. We argue that state agencies can and do resist federal administrative orders independent of other political cons…
The Mask of Neutrality
Do judges ruling on redistricting litigation increase electoral competition in congressional races while simultaneously drawing districts favoring their party's congressional candidates? I offer a novel theory of judicial partisan calculation, arguing that judges draw more competitive districts than legislatures or commissions, but that judge‐drawn districts favor the electoral interests of their copartisans. These claims are reconcilable because…
Trends
Do attitudes of elected officials toward racial issues change when the issues are portrayed as economic? Traditionally, scholars have presented Confederate symbols as primarily a racial issue: elites supporting their eradication from public life tend to emphasize the association of Confederate symbols with slavery and institutionalized racism, while those elected officials who oppose the removal of Confederate symbols often cite the heritage of w…
The Personal Finances of United States Supreme Court Justices and Decision-making in Economic Litigation
What explains probusiness judicial decision-making? Existing scholarship focuses on federal judges acting strategically or ideologically, but this represents only some factors affecting judicial behavior. Our objective is to develop a theory of judicial decision-making in economic litigation based on judges’ personal finances. We test this approach by considering how Supreme Court justices’ investments impact decision-making in cases involving bu…
The Mixed Effects of Candidate Visits on Campaign Donations in the 2020 Presidential Election
Recent scholarship on the effect of candidate visits in presidential elections has found that appearances by candidates appear to mobilize both supporters and opponents. Specifically, in the 2016 presidential election, donations to campaigns of the visiting presidential candidates increased, but—in the case of Republican nominee Donald Trump—so did donations to his opponent, Hillary Clinton. In this paper, we extend this research by assessing the…
Mobilization and Countermobilization
Political scientists studying the impact of campaign visits by presidential candidates have come to conflicting conclusions on whether campaigns change voter behavior in even small ways. In this article, we argue that, while scholars have generally interpreted campaign effect results as being unidirectional, the traditional metrics of such effects—polls and aggregate vote results—inherently reflect a net effect combining any potential mobilizatio…
The Private Interests of Public Officials
Legislators' private financial holdings affect policy decisions. Due to financial self‐interest, we theorize that legislators whose personal investment portfolios include equities from firms affected by proposed policies vote for legislation that benefits those firms. We also theorize that legislators with greater personal exposure to equity investments support policies that benefit equities markets generally. We create a novel data set of legisl…
The Politicized Enforcement of Laws Criminalizing Executive Branch Conflicts of Interest
There exist a host of separate federal statutes governing conflicts of interest for employees in the federal executive branch. These are supplemented by additional administrative rules promulgated by the Office of Government Ethics. Most provisions regulate financial self‐dealing via the imposition of criminal sanctions. In this article, I analyze the enforcement of public ethics law in the executive branch in three ways: first, by examining the …
Public Perceptions of Corporate Position-Taking on Abortion and Transgender Rights
Corporations regularly express preferences on questions of public policy. This can occur through costly actions like lobbying public officials, contributing money to candidates, and engaging in litigation. One less costly way of expressing policy preferences is by issuing statements of support for or in opposition to a given policy or government practice. In this article, we examine public perceptions of corporate position-taking to determine the…
Implementing Equality
Because the civil rights movement accomplished many successes via litigation, advocacy communities regard courts as bulwarks against the legal enshrinement of oppression targeting vulnerable minorities. Advocates of LGBTQ equality are no different, identifying the judiciary as critical to eradicating discrimination on the basis of sexual orientation. Standing alone, however, Supreme Court holdings revising the scope of civil rights for sexual min…
The legacy of American territorial imperialism and its consequences for civil rights
Despite the ubiquity of maps presenting 48 contiguous states, Alaska, and Hawaiʻi, the territorial expanse of land subject to the laws of the United States comprises more than that. The federal government also controls and administers island territories in the Caribbean and in the Pacific. Though they exist in constitutional limbo, US territories retain certain autonomy over local affairs. The policy portfolio of territorial governments thus incl…
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