Stolen Representation: Black Disfranchisement and Legislative Politics in the American South
Under Contract, Cambridge University Press
Kaslovsky, Jaclyn, Tabitha Koch, and Michael P. Olson. Accepted. "Gendered Perceptions of Legislative Influence." Perspectives on Politics.
An earlier version of this paper was Center for Effective Lawmaking Working Paper 2024-04
Kaslovsky, Jaclyn and Michael P. Olson. Forthcoming. "Legislature Size and Party Unity: Evidence from Historical U.S. State Legislatures." Journal of Politics. [ungated version] [publisher site] [supplementary material] [replication files]
Stone, Andrew R. and Michael P. Olson. Forthcoming. "Elections Improve Support for State Trial Court Judges in the United States." Journal of Law and Courts. [publisher site (open access)] [replication files]
Olson, Michael P. 2025. "Legislative Term Limits and Ideological Representation." Journal of Policy History 37(1): 48-70. (Invited Contribution to Special Issue on Term Limits). [publisher site (open access)] [replication files]
Olson, Michael P. 2025. "'Restoration' and Representation: Legislative Consequences of Black Disfranchisement in the American South, 1879-1916." American Journal of Political Science 69(2): 387-405. [ungated version] [publisher site] [supplementary material] [replication files]
Olson, Michael P. and Jon C. Rogowski. 2024. "Legislative Organization and Political Representation." Quarterly Journal of Political Science 19(3): 275-305. [ungated version] [publisher site] [supplementary material] [replication files]
Featured on ``Not Another Politics Podcast'' (University of Chicago Podcast Network), August 14, 2024
Olson, Michael P. and Andrew R. Stone. 2023. "The Incumbency Advantage in Judicial Elections: Evidence from Partisan Trial Court Elections in Six U.S. States." Political Behavior 45(4): 1333-1354. [ungated version] [publisher site] [supplementary material] [replication files]
Olson, Michael P. and Albert H. Rivero. 2022. "Appellate Court Influence over District Courts in the United States." Journal of Political Institutions and Political Economy 3(2): 183-213. [ungated version] [publisher site] [supplementary materials] [replication files]
Ansolabehere, Stephen, Jaclyn Kaslovsky, and Michael P. Olson. 2022. "Franchise Expansion and Legislative Representation in the Early United States." Journal of Political Institutions and Political Economy 3(2): 243-271. [ungated version] [publisher site] [supplementary materials] [replication files]
Winner, Kenneth A. Shepsle Prize for best article in the Journal of Political Institutions and Political Economy in Volume 3 (2022)
Hirano, Shigeo, Jaclyn Kaslovsky, Michael P. Olson, and James M. Snyder, Jr.. 2022. "The Growth of Campaign Advertising in the U.S., 1880 - 1930." Journal of Politics 84(3): 1482-1496. [ungated version] [publisher site] [supplementary materials] [replication files]
Winner, Pi Sigma Alpha Award for Best Paper, 2018 Southern Political Science Association Meeting
Heersink, Boris, Jeffery A. Jenkins, Michael P. Olson, and Brenton D. Peterson. 2022. "Natural Disasters, ‘Partisan Retrospection,’ and U.S. Presidential Elections." Political Behavior 44: 1225–1246. [publisher site] [ungated version] [supplementary materials] [replication files]
Blackwell, Matthew and Michael P. Olson. 2021. "Reducing Model Misspecification and Bias in the Estimation of Interactions." Political Analysis 30(4): 495-514. [ungated version] [publisher site] [supplementary materials] [replication files]
Olson, Michael P. and James M. Snyder, Jr. 2021. "Dyadic Representation in the American North and South: The Case of Prohibition." Journal of Politics 83(3): 1030-1045. [ungated version] [publisher site] [supplementary materials] [replication files]
Olson, Michael P. 2020. "The Direct Primary and the Incumbency Advantage in the U.S. House of Representatives. Quarterly Journal of Political Science 15(4): 483-506. [ungated version] [publisher site] [supplementary materials] [replication files]
Olson, Michael P. and Jon C. Rogowski. 2020. "Legislative Term Limits and Polarization." Journal of Politics. 82(2): 572-586. [ungated version] [supplementary materials] [replication files]
Olson, Michael P. 2018. "The Print Media and the American Party System: Evidence from the 2016 U.S. Presidential Election." Quarterly Journal of Political Science 13(4): 405-426. [ungated version] [publisher site] [supplementary materials] [replication files]
Olson, Michael P. 2019. "Gaining Voice: The Causes and Consequences of Black Representation in the American States. By Christopher J. Clark. New York: Oxford University Press, 2019. 264 pp. $74.00 (cloth)." The Journal of Race, Ethnicity, and Politics 5(2), 415-417. [publisher site]
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Revised and Resubmitted
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