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Assistant Professor

Arkansas State University

faculty

5 h-index 27 pubs 48 cited

Research Areas

Electoral Systems and Political Participation American Constitutional Law and Politics Gender Diversity and Inequality Racial and Ethnic Identity Research LGBTQ Health, Identity, and Policy Health Literacy and Information Accessibility

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OverviewAI-generated summary

Jordan Butcher researches the dynamics of state legislatures and court systems in the United States. Their work investigates factors influencing legislative turnover, including gender and the professionalization of state courts. Butcher has examined the retention of women in state legislatures, the experiences of queer women of color in these bodies, and the impact of term limits. Additionally, their research explores the centralization of regulation in response to presidential priorities and the transparency of information within state governments. Butcher's scholarship has resulted in publications in 2021, 2022, 2023, and 2024, contributing to a body of work with an h-index of 5 and 48 total citations across 27 publications.

Metrics

  • h-index: 5
  • Publications: 27
  • Citations: 48

Selected Publications

  • “Stronger”: Learning From Nevada's Women‐Led Legislative Majority (2025) DOI
  • Out with the Old, In with the Republicans? The Partisan Push of Legislative Term Limits (2025) DOI
  • How Free is Information? Transparency in State Government (2024) DOI
  • Replication Data for: Already Gone: Retaining Women in State Legislatures (2023) DOI
  • The Push and Promise of Term Limits (2023) DOI
  • Conclusions (2023) DOI
  • Term Limits and Their Many Theories (2023) DOI
  • Changes to External Relations: State Agencies (2023) DOI
  • Legislative Leadership (2023) DOI
  • Changes to Internal Deliberation: Committees (2023) DOI
  • Declining Turnover and Legislative Leave (2023) DOI
  • Legislative Careerism and Growing Ambition (2023) DOI
  • Navigating Term Limits (2023) DOI
  • Already Gone: Retaining Women in State Legislatures (2023) DOI
  • Parties and professionals, an exploration of turnover in U.S. state legislatures (2023) DOI

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