{"id":42,"date":"2012-05-29T15:59:33","date_gmt":"2012-05-29T15:59:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wordpress.clarku.edu\/rboatright\/?page_id=42"},"modified":"2025-12-28T16:29:54","modified_gmt":"2025-12-28T16:29:54","slug":"miscellany","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/wordpress.clarku.edu\/rboatright\/miscellany\/","title":{"rendered":"Miscellany"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright wp-image-118\" title=\"boatright-expressive\" src=\"https:\/\/wordpress.clarku.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/166\/2012\/05\/boatright-expressive-198x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"210\" height=\"318\" srcset=\"https:\/\/wordpress.clarku.edu\/rboatright\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/166\/2012\/05\/boatright-expressive-198x300.jpg 198w, https:\/\/wordpress.clarku.edu\/rboatright\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/166\/2012\/05\/boatright-expressive.jpg 450w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 210px) 100vw, 210px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>My first book, <em>Expressive Politics:&nbsp; Issue Strategies of Congressional Challengers<\/em>, was published by the Ohio State University Press in 2004.&nbsp; You can read about it or buy a copy <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ohiostatepress.org\/Books\/Book%20Pages\/Boatright%20Expressive.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>In 2017 I participated in the Icelandic Federalist Papers; <a href=\"https:\/\/escholarship.org\/uc\/item\/50s1b660\">here<\/a> is my effort to tell people in Iceland some things about how often they should hold elections.&nbsp; No idea if any of them took my advice!<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>During the 1990s and early 2000s I also wrote several articles and monographs on issues related to jury selection and jury summons <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ajs.org\/cart\/thumbnail.asp?subject_id=4\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-127 alignright\" src=\"https:\/\/wordpress.clarku.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/166\/2012\/05\/improving-jury-summons-234x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"211\" height=\"270\" srcset=\"https:\/\/wordpress.clarku.edu\/rboatright\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/166\/2012\/05\/improving-jury-summons-234x300.jpg 234w, https:\/\/wordpress.clarku.edu\/rboatright\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/166\/2012\/05\/improving-jury-summons.jpg 464w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 211px) 100vw, 211px\" \/><\/a>response; please see my vita for a full listing.&nbsp; This stuff was all written while I was a research fellow at the American Judicature Society (AJS).&nbsp; Sadly, AJS was disbanded in 2014, butseveral worthy organizations have continued its mission of improving American courts and the American judiciary.&nbsp; You can read a little about about the history of AJS <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/American_Judicature_Society\">here<\/a>.&nbsp; IF you&#8217;re here because you&#8217;re looking for copies of my monographs on jury summons nonresponse, the role of age in jury summons response, and the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ojp.gov\/ncjrs\/virtual-library\/abstracts\/behind-closed-doors-assisting-jurors-their-deliberations\">guide<\/a> we put together on jury deliberations, please email me and I&#8217;d be happy to send a copy.<\/p>\n<p>And finally, <a href=\"https:\/\/wordpress.clarku.edu\/rboatright\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/166\/2025\/12\/Godzilla-US-Politcs-draft.pdf\">here<\/a> is an essay I wrote about the political implications of Godzilla movies.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\">&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; My first book, Expressive Politics:&nbsp; Issue Strategies of Congressional Challengers, was published by the Ohio State University Press in 2004.&nbsp; You can read about it or buy a copy here. In 2017 I participated in the Icelandic Federalist Papers; &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/wordpress.clarku.edu\/rboatright\/miscellany\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":191,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":60,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-42","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.clarku.edu\/rboatright\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/42","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.clarku.edu\/rboatright\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.clarku.edu\/rboatright\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.clarku.edu\/rboatright\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/191"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.clarku.edu\/rboatright\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=42"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.clarku.edu\/rboatright\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/42\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.clarku.edu\/rboatright\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=42"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}