Jordan Butcher Data-verified

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Assistant Professor

Last publication 2026 Last refreshed 2026-05-16

faculty

5 h-index 27 pubs 51 cited

Biography and Research Information

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Jordan Butcher's research focuses on the study of state legislatures and courts in the United States. Their work investigates legislative turnover, including factors that influence retention and the experiences of specific demographic groups within these bodies. Butcher has examined the professionalization of state courts of last resort and the transparency of state government information. Additionally, their scholarship explores the impact of presidential priorities on regulatory centralization and the dynamics of legislative turnover in relation to party affiliation and professionalization.

Butcher has published on topics such as updating legislative turnover data, retaining women in state legislatures, and the experiences of queer women of color in state legislatures. Their recent publications also address the concepts of navigating term limits and the role of parties and professionals in legislative turnover. Butcher's scholarship has contributed to understanding the composition and functioning of state-level political institutions.

Metrics

  • h-index: 5
  • Publications: 27
  • Citations: 51

Selected Publications

  • “Stronger”: Learning From Nevada's Women‐Led Legislative Majority (2025)
    1 citation DOI OpenAlex
  • Out with the Old, In with the Republicans? The Partisan Push of Legislative Term Limits (2025)
  • How Free is Information? Transparency in State Government (2024)
    1 citation DOI OpenAlex
  • Replication Data for: Already Gone: Retaining Women in State Legislatures (2023)
  • The Push and Promise of Term Limits (2023)
  • Conclusions (2023)
  • Term Limits and Their Many Theories (2023)
  • Changes to External Relations: State Agencies (2023)
  • Legislative Leadership (2023)
  • Changes to Internal Deliberation: Committees (2023)
  • Declining Turnover and Legislative Leave (2023)
  • Legislative Careerism and Growing Ambition (2023)
  • Navigating Term Limits (2023)
    4 citations DOI OpenAlex
  • Already Gone: Retaining Women in State Legislatures (2023)
    5 citations DOI OpenAlex
  • Parties and professionals, an exploration of turnover in U.S. state legislatures (2023)
    1 citation DOI OpenAlex

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