Bailey R Fairbanks
Biographic Data
| ID | 5986807 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Bailey R Fairbanks |
| GIVEN NAMES | Bailey R |
| FAMILY NAME | Fairbanks |
| SIGNATURE | FAIRBANKS B R |
| AFFILIATIONS | Georgia State University |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-9799-5275 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 4 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 4 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 4 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2018 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2021 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Pay to Play? How Reducing Apsa Division Fees Increases Graduate Student Participation
In 2017, the American Political Science Association (APSA) Committee on the Status of Graduate Students in the Profession launched an initiative to lower the cost of Division (i.e., organized section) membership for students to promote graduate students’ professional development and to advance Division interests. This article assesses the effect of this intervention on Division membership. Using APSA membership data, we find that almost two third…
Locked in a Box: How Activist Art Affects Opinions about Solitary Confinement
Does exposure to activist political art influence citizens’ beliefs about solitary confinement? This research uniquely assesses the impact of exposure to an art exhibition on support for solitary confinement. It utilizes an experimental research design that involved randomly assigning half of the participants to enter a public art installment replicating a solitary confinement prison cell prior to completing a survey that measured opinions about …
The Effect of Opinion Readability on the Impact of U.S. Supreme Court Precedents in State High Courts
Objective This article examines whether more readable U.S. Supreme Court opinions are cited with greater frequency in state courts of last resort. Methods We use random slope, random intercept multilevel models to analyze 30 years of state high court citations to U.S. Supreme Court majority opinions issued during the 1987–2006 terms. Results Our analysis reveals that opinion readability exerts a strong substantive impact on citation rates. This e…
Merging Undergraduate Teaching, Graduate Training, and Producing Research: Lessons from Three Collaborative Experiments
Teaching undergraduate students, mentoring graduate students, and generating publishable research are distinct tasks for many political scientists. This article highlights lessons for merging these activities through experiences from an initiative that sparked a series of collaborative-research projects focused on opinions about crime and punishment in the United States. This article describes three collaborative projects conducted between 2015 a…
The Effect of Opinion Readability on the Impact of U.S. Supreme Court Precedents in State High Courts
Objective This article examines whether more readable U.S. Supreme Court opinions are cited with greater frequency in state courts of last resort. Methods We use random slope, random intercept multilevel models to analyze 30 years of state high court citations to U.S. Supreme Court majority opinions issued during the 1987–2006 terms. Results Our analysis reveals that opinion readability exerts a strong substantive impact on citation rates. This e…
Merging Undergraduate Teaching, Graduate Training, and Producing Research: Lessons from Three Collaborative Experiments
Teaching undergraduate students, mentoring graduate students, and generating publishable research are distinct tasks for many political scientists. This article highlights lessons for merging these activities through experiences from an initiative that sparked a series of collaborative-research projects focused on opinions about crime and punishment in the United States. This article describes three collaborative projects conducted between 2015 a…
Merging Undergraduate Teaching, Graduate Training, and Producing Research: Lessons from Three Collaborative Experiments
Teaching undergraduate students, mentoring graduate students, and generating publishable research are distinct tasks for many political scientists. This article highlights lessons for merging these activities through experiences from an initiative that sparked a series of collaborative-research projects focused on opinions about crime and punishment in the United States. This article describes three collaborative projects conducted between 2015 a…
Locked in a Box: How Activist Art Affects Opinions about Solitary Confinement
Does exposure to activist political art influence citizens’ beliefs about solitary confinement? This research uniquely assesses the impact of exposure to an art exhibition on support for solitary confinement. It utilizes an experimental research design that involved randomly assigning half of the participants to enter a public art installment replicating a solitary confinement prison cell prior to completing a survey that measured opinions about …
The Effect of Opinion Readability on the Impact of U.S. Supreme Court Precedents in State High Courts
Objective This article examines whether more readable U.S. Supreme Court opinions are cited with greater frequency in state courts of last resort. Methods We use random slope, random intercept multilevel models to analyze 30 years of state high court citations to U.S. Supreme Court majority opinions issued during the 1987–2006 terms. Results Our analysis reveals that opinion readability exerts a strong substantive impact on citation rates. This e…
Pay to Play? How Reducing Apsa Division Fees Increases Graduate Student Participation
In 2017, the American Political Science Association (APSA) Committee on the Status of Graduate Students in the Profession launched an initiative to lower the cost of Division (i.e., organized section) membership for students to promote graduate students’ professional development and to advance Division interests. This article assesses the effect of this intervention on Division membership. Using APSA membership data, we find that almost two third…
Political science (4 works) · Law (3 works) · Politics (3 works) · Computer Science (2 works) · Graduate students (2 works) · Law (2 works) · Medical education (2 works) · Medicine (2 works) · Psychology (2 works) · Public relations (2 works)