Peer-Reviewed Publications
Boyea, Brent D., David A. Hughes, Marcy Shieh, and Kayla S. Canelo. 2026. “The Evolution of State Courts Research in the 21st Century.” State Politics and Policy Quarterly, forthcoming.
Canelo, Kayla S., Brent D. Boyea, and Danielle Myers. 2026. “Facing the Public: Voter Assessments of Judicial Scandal.” Journal of Law and Courts 14(1):27-43.
Canelo, Kayla S., and Melissa N. Baker. 2025. “Intersecting Identities and Perceptions of Judicial Misconduct.” Social Science Quarterly 106(5):1-11.
Baker, Melissa N., and Kayla S. Canelo. 2025. “Judges Behaving Badly: Judicial Misconduct and a Threat to Rights.” Journal of Experimental Political Science 12(12):151-160.
Canelo, Kayla S. 2025. “Gender and Public Perceptions of Judges who Refuse to Recuse.” Politics, Groups, and Identities 13(3):614-627.
Hansford, Thomas G., Sarah Depaoli, and Kayla S. Canelo. 2022. “Estimating the Ideal Points of Organized Interests in Legal Policy Space.” Justice System Journal 43(4):564-575.
Canelo, Kayla S. 2022. “Citations to Interest Groups and Acceptance of Supreme Court Decisions.” Journal of Empirical Legal Studies 19(1):198-222. Replication Materials.
Canelo, Kayla S. 2022. “The Supreme Court, Ideology, and the Decision to Cite or Borrow from Amicus Curiae Briefs.” American Politics Research 50(2):. Replication Materials.
Canelo, Kayla S. 2020. “State Coalitions, Informational Signals, & Success as Amicus Curiae at the United States Supreme Court.” State Politics & Policy Quarterly 20(1): 108-130. Replication Materials.
Hansford, Thomas G., Sarah Depaoli, and Kayla S. Canelo. 2019. “Locating U.S. Solicitors General in the Supreme Court’s Policy Space.” Presidential Studies Quarterly 49(4): 855-869.
Canelo, Kayla S., Thomas G. Hansford, and Stephen P. Nicholson. 2018. “The Paradoxical Effect of Speech-Suppressing Appeals to the First Amendment.” Journal of Politics 80(1): 309-313. Replication Materials.
Coe, Chelsea M., Kayla S. Canelo, Kau Vue, Matthew V. Hibbing, and Stephen P. Nicholson. 2017. “The Physiology of Framing Effects: Threat Sensitivity and the Persuasiveness of Political Arguments.” Journal of Politics 79(4): 1465-1468. Replication Materials.
Other Selected Publications
Boyea, Brent D., Paul Brace, and Kayla S. Canelo. 2023. “Giving to Governors: State Contribution Limits and the Incumbency Advantage.” Beijing Law Review 14(3): 1432-1455.
Nicholson, Stephen P. and Canelo, Kayla S. 2016. “Direct Democracy in the United States.” In Oxford Bibliographies in Political Science. Ed. Sandy Maisel. New York: Oxford University Press.
Canelo, Kayla S. 2012. “Turlock Assembly Center, The.” In Densho Encyclopedia of the Japanese American Incarceration. Ed. Brian Niiya.
Working Papers
Boyea, Brent D., and Kayla S. Canelo. “Scandal and Incumbent Defeat in State Supreme Court Elections.” (Book chapter)
Canelo, Kayla S., and Brent D. Boyea. “Scandal and the Ballot: Electoral Consequences for State Supreme Court Judges.”
Canelo, Kayla S., and Stephen P. Nicholson. “Ruled by Emotions: The Emotional Aftermath of Dobbs v. Jackson on Public Support for the Court and Political Engagement.”
Canelo, Kayla S., and Stephen P. Nicholson. “Emotional Fallout: The Effect of Dobbs v. Jackson on Political Attitudes.”
Kayla S. Canelo, Ph.D. 