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Michael J. Nelson

Affiliate Faculty Member Michael Nelson

Jeffrey L. Hyde and Sharon D. Hyde and Political Science Board of Visitors Early Career Professor in Political Science and Associate Professor of Political Science

Email: 
mjn15@psu.edu
Phone: 
(814) 865-7515
Education: 

Ph.D., Washington University
B.A., Drake University

Michael Nelson, associate professor of political science and affiliate law faculty, specializes in American politics, state politics, and judicial politics. His research examines the effects of judicial elections on the development of the law as well as the determinants and effects of public support for state and federal courts in the United States. Michael holds a Ph.D. in Political Science from Washington University in St. Louis and a B.A. in Political Science and English from Drake University. His research has been published or is forthcoming in the American Journal of Political Science, the Journal of Law and Courts, Political Research Quarterly, State Politics and Policy Quarterly, and Judicature.