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Patrick C. Wohlfarth is Assistant Professor in the Department of Government and Politics at the University of Maryland, College Park. He received his Ph.D. in Political Science in 2010 from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. In 2010-2011, he was a Post-Doctoral Fellow in the Department of Political Science and Center for Empirical Research in the Law at Washington University in St. Louis.
Dr. Wohlfarth’s research interests include American politics and quantitative methodology, focusing on judicial politics, interinstitutional politics, and time series analysis. His current research projects examine judicial influence on the executive branch, the impact of public opinion on the U.S. Supreme Court, executive branch litigation on the U.S. Supreme Court, and bureaucratic politics. Patrick’s published research has appeared in the American Journal of Political Science and The Journal of Politics.
Casillas, Christopher J., Peter K. Enns, and Patrick C. Wohlfarth. 2011. “How Public Opinion Constrains the U.S. Supreme Court.” American Journal of Political Science 55(1): 74–88.
Ura, Joseph Daniel and Patrick C. Wohlfarth. 2010. “‘An Appeal to the People’: Public Opinion and Congressional Support for the Supreme Court.” The Journal of Politics 72(4): 939–956.
Wohlfarth, Patrick C. 2009. “The Tenth Justice? Consequences of Politicization in the Solicitor General’s Office.” The Journal of Politics 71(1): 224–237.
