Curt Nichols
Associate Professor
Department of Political Science
Baylor University
United States of America
Biography
Curt Nichols is currently working as an Associate Professor of Political Science at Baylor University. He has completed his B.S., The United States Military Academy at West Point & M.A., Georgia State University & Ph.D., University of Texas. Curt Nichols specializes in American politics, with an interest in both political institutions and political development. His current book-length research project is located at this intersection. It focuses on the U.S. Constitution as mainspring of the American governing cycle, a phenomenon which provides periodic opportunities for presidents to exercise rejuvenating leadership. The study highlights the importance of both structuring institutions and well-directed agency. It further explores the promise and pitfalls of politics in the American constitutional order, and helps locate today’s politics within the recurrent tides of the governing cycle. He will be on research leave at the University of Missouri, Columbia where he will join the Forum on Constitutional Democracy as a 2014-2015 Kinder Research Fellow.
Research Interest
political institutions and political development.
Publications
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"Reagan Reorders the Political Regime: A Historical-Institutional Approach to Analysis of Change," Presidential Studies Quarterly, Vol. 45, No 4 (2015): 703-726.
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"Executive Behavior and the Influence of Religious Factors: Evidence from Gubernatorial State of the State Addresses, 2000-2013," Politics, Groups, and Identities. Vol. 41 No 1: 47-62, (2016).
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""Congressional Attacks on the Supreme Court: A Mechanism to Maintain, Build, and Consolidate," Law and Social Inquiry. Vol. 41 No 1(2016): 100-125.
