Alison Higgins Merrill
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Publications:

Haglin, Kathryn M., Soren Jordan, Alison Higgins Merrill, and Joseph Daniel Ura. 2020. ``Ideology and Specific Support for the Supreme Court.'' Forthcoming Political Research Quarterly 

Merrill, Alison Higgins, Nicholas D. Conway, and Joseph Daniel Ura. 2017. ``Confidence and Constraint: Public Opinion, Judicial Independence and the Roberts Court.'' Washington University Journal of Law and Policy 54(1).


Ura, Joseph Daniel and Alison Higgins Merrill. 2017. ``The Supreme Court and Public Opinion.'' In The Oxford Handbook of U.S. Judicial Behavior, eds. Lee Epstein and Stefanie A. Lindquist. New York, NY: Oxford University Press.
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Works in Progress:

``Fear, Duty, or Prestige? Why the U.S. Supreme Court Justices Follow Public Opinion.'' (with Matthew E.K. Hall and Joseph Daniel Ura)

"Know Thy Neighbor: Ideological Distance and Strategic Decision-Making on the U.S. Supreme Court." (with Samantha Zuhlke)

"Selecting on the Economy? Economic Issues, Public Opinion and the Supreme Court.''

``SCOTUS Interruptus: Speech Patterns and Opinion Authorship of Female U.S. Supreme Court Justices.''​ (with Nicholas D. Conway and Morgan E. Winkler)

​``Dynamic Issue Attention and Agenda Setting on the U.S. Supreme Court.''


``Competing Public Agency: Public Opinion, Separation of Powers, and Judicial Review." (with Joseph Daniel Ura and Nicholas D. Conway)

``Signals or Noise? The Influence of Judicial Ideology and Public Opinion on Supreme Court Reversals and Affirmances." (with Joseph Daniel Ura)
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