Kaylee Johnson

College of Humanities and Social Sciences

Political Science

Kaylee has been involved in research since her sophomore year at Utah State University, doing honors contracts for political science classes, working as a research assistant for three semesters, and working as an undergraduate teaching fellow. Kaylee’s research efforts have focused on judicial politics and public law. She has worked on a variety of projects in these areas. To name a few, she has assisted in projects regarding the application of the landmark decision Marbury v. Madison, the use of graveyard dissents (when a justice votes with the majority even though he/she disagrees with the decision), and the frequency of different constitutional issues found in memos in the archives of Supreme Court Justice Harry Blackmun. Kaylee is a coauthor of an article recently published in Political Science & Politics, analyzing the text complexity of political science research. This article has important implications for the political science community because it demonstrates the accessibility of political science research to the general public. Another paper that Kaylee is co-authoring has recently been accepted and will be presented at the Southern Political Science Association’s Annual Conference. This political science research conference is one of the largest in the U.S. Kaylee’s undergraduate research efforts have turned out vital findings, adding greatly to the political science literature.