Publications

Shaffer, Robert. “Power in Text: Implementing Networks and Institutional Complexity in American Law.” Forthcoming at the Journal of Politics. (Appendix/Replication)

Shaffer, Robert, Lauren Pinson, Jonathan Chu, and Beth Simmons. “Local Elected Officials’ Receptivity to Refugee Resttlement in the United States”. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 117.50 (2020): 31722-31728.

Shaffer, Robert and Stephen Mayhew. “Legal Linking: Citation Resolution and Suggestion in Constitutional Law.” Proceedings of the NAACL Workshop on Natural Legal Language Processing (2019).

Mohanty, Pete and Robert Shaffer. “Messy Data, Robust Inference? Navigating Obstacles to Inference with bigKRLS”. Political Analysis 27.2 (2019): 127-144. (Appendix/Replication)

Pan, Janice, Robert Shaffer, Zenia Sinno, Marcus Tyler, and Joydeep Ghosh. “The Obesity Paradox in ICU Patients.” Proceedings of the Annual International Conference of the IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society (2017): 3360-3364.

Shaffer, Robert. “Cognitive Load and Issue Engagement in Congressional Discourse.” Cognitive Systems Research 44 (2017): 89-99.

Elkins, Zachary, Tom Ginsburg, James Melton, Robert Shaffer, Juan F. Sequeda, and Daniel P. Miranker. “Constitute: The world’s constitutions to read, search, and compare.” Journal of Web Semantics 27 (2014): 10-18.

Shaffer, Robert. “Judicial Oversight in the Comparative Context: Biodiversity Protection in the United States, Australia, and Canada.” Envtl. L. Rep. 43 (2013): 10-169.

Software

Mohanty, Pete and Robert Shaffer. bigKRLS: Optimized Kernel Regularized Least Squares. (CRAN/GitHub)

Working Papers

Simmons, Beth and Robert Shaffer. “Globalization and Border Securitization in International Discourse.” Under review. (Appendix)

Lerner, Josh and Robert Shaffer. “Setting the Committee Agenda: Measuring Speaker Influence in Congressional Hearings.” Under review. (Appendix)