State Courts, State Legislatures, and Setting Abortion Policy

Jeong Hyun Kim is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Political Science and International Studies at Yonsei University. She received her Ph.D. from Washington University in St. Louis. She works in the field of comparative politics with a focus on democratic representation, gender and politics, and public opinion. Her research has been funded by the Center for American Women and Politics, the APSA Centennial Center, and the Academy of Korean Studies. Her work has been published in the American Journal of Political Science, Comparative Political Studies, Legislative Studies Quarterly, Politics & Gender, among others.

jhkim1@yonsei.ac.kr

Anna Gunderson is an Assistant Professor of Political Science at Louisiana State University and received her Ph.D. from Emory University. Captive Market, her multi-award-winning book project published with Oxford University Press, considers why states privatize their prisons and argues it is states’ desire to avoid legal and political accountability for prison conditions that prompt this decision. Her work is published or forthcoming in the Journal of Politics, Perspectives on Politics, Nature Human Behavior, Political Research Quarterly, the Journal of Empirical Legal Studies, and the Journal of Race, Ethnicity, and Politics.

Elizabeth Lane is an Assistant Professor in Department of Political Science at Louisiana State University. She earned her PhD from Michigan State University in American politics and research methods in 2019. Her research centers on the intersection of race, gender, and judicial behavior at the Supreme Court. Her work has been funded by the National Science Foundation and the American Political Science Association. Her research appears in the Journal of Law and Courts, American Politics Review, and featured by The London School of Economics Phelen Center Blog and Vox. She currently serves as the faculty representative for LSU's Pre-Law Society.

Nichole M. Bauer is an Associate Professor of Political Communication in the Department of Political Science and the LSU Manship School of Mass Communication. Her research investigates the persistence of women’s under-representation in the United States. She is the recipient of the 2020 LSU Rainmaker Award and the 2019 LSU Alumni Association Rising Faculty Research Award. She is the author of The Qualifications Gap: Why Women Must be Better than Men to Win Political Office. Her research is published in the Journal of Politics, Political Psychology, Political Behavior, Politics & Gender, and Politics, Groups, and Identities among other outlets.