Michael Fix
Professor, Graduate Director Political Science- Education
Ph.D. 2011. University of South Carolina
- Specializations
Judicial Politics/Public Law; Methods
- Biography
I am a Professor and Director of Graduate Studies in the Department of Political Science at Georgia State University, specializing in judicial politics. My research primarily examines the role of state high courts in the broader political and legal environment.
I teach courses at the graduate and undergraduate level on constitutional law, judicial process, and research methods. I received my Ph.D. from the University of South Carolina and my M.A. and B.A. degrees from the University of Kentucky.
- Publications
To view all my publications, please visit my Google Scholar page.
- Fix, Michael P., and Benjamin J. Kassow. 2020. U.S. Supreme Court Doctrine in the State High Courts. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
- Kassow, Benjamin J., and Michael P. Fix. 2022. “Federal Appeals Court Responses to Supreme Court Precedent.” Justice System Journal 43(3): 339- 352.
- Montgomery, Matthew D., Michael P. Fix, and Justin T. Kingsland. 2021. “Rigid Rules and Slippery Standards: How the Nature of U.S. Supreme Court Precedents Influences Subsequent State Court Treatments.” Social Science Quarterly 102(6): 2894-2906.
- Fix, Michael P. and Bailey R. Fairbanks. 2020. “The Effect of Opinion Readability on the Impact of U.S. Supreme Court Precedents in State High Courts.” Social Science Quarterly. 101(2): 811–824.
- Curry, Todd A., and Michael P. Fix. 2019. “May It Please the Twitterverse: The Use of Twitter by State High Court Judges.” Journal of Information Technology & Politics. 16(4): 379–393.