Gregory A. Caldeira
Distinguished University Professor, Political Science
Ann and Darrell Dreher Chair in Political Communication and Policy Thinking
Professor of Law, Moritz College of Law
2022 Derby Hall
614.292.4476
caldeira.1@osu.edu
Education
B.A., Political Science, California State University, Stanislaus (1973)
A.M., Politics, Princeton University (1975)
Ph.D., Politics, Princeton University (1978)
Teaching/Research
Dr. Caldeira pursues research and teaching in the fields of public law, judicial processes in the United States and Europe, organized interests, American political institutions, comparative constitutional law and courts.
Selected Publications
"Knowing the Supreme Court? A Reconsideration of Public Ignorance of the High Court," with James Gibson (Journal of Politics, forthcoming)
Citizens, Courts, and Confirmations:
Positivity Theory and the Judgments of the American People, with James Gibson (Princeton University Press, 2009)
"A Spatial Model of Supreme Court Voting," with Kevin McGuire, Georg Vanberg, and Charles Smith (Journal of Politics, 2009)
"Supreme Court Nominations, Legitimacy Theory, and the American Public: A Dynamic Test of the Theory of Positivity Bias," with James Gibson (American Journal of Political Science, 2009)
Oxford Handbook of Law and Politics, with Keith E. Whittington and R. Daniel Keleman (Oxford University Press, 2008)
"What Americans Know About the Courts and Why It Matters," in Institutions of Democracy: The Judiciary, ed. by Kermit L. Hall and Kevin T. McGuire (Oxford University Press, 2005)
"The Supreme Court Forecasting Project: Prediction versus Explanation and Statistical Models versus Expert Judgments" (Perspectives on Politics, 2004)
"The Supreme Court and the U. S. Presidential Election of 2000," with James L. Gibson and Lester Kenyatta Spence (British Journal of Political Science, 2003)
"Measuring Attitudes toward the United States Supreme Court," with James L. Gibson and Lester Kenyatta Spence (American Journal of Political Science, 2003)
"Lobbying for Justice: Organized Interests, Supreme Court Nominations, and the United States Senate," with John R. Wright (American Journal of Political Science, 1998)
"On the Existence of Consensual Norms in the United States Supreme Court," with Christopher J.W. Zorn (American Journal of Political Science, 1998)
Honors, Awards and Service
President, President-Elect, Past-President, Midwest Political Science Association (2005-08)
Member, Edward S. Corwin Dissertation Award Committee, American Political Science Association (2007-08)
American Judicature Society Prize for Best Paper on Law and Courts at a Professional Meeting, "A Spatial Model of Supreme Court Voting" (2005)
Member, Editorial Board, The Journal of Politics (2001-04)
Member, Selection Panel on Graduate Fellowships, Program in Education, National Science Foundation (2003)
Grant from the Ford Foundation, "The Impact of Bush v. Gore on African-Americans' Views of the Supreme Court," through Washington University in St. Louis and spent at The Ohio State University's Center for Survey Research (2001)
Editor, American Journal of Political Science (1998-2001)
Member, Editorial Board, Political Research Quarterly (1996-2000)
Mershon Projects
"Critical Nominations and the Legitimacy of the Supreme Court," for support of a three-wave panel study of Americans' involvement in the nominating process and in particular of the impact of Justice Alito’s nomination on orientations toward the Court and the rule of law (2006)
"The Causes and Consequences of the Globalization of Judicial Power" (1999-2001)
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