Books
The Social Foundations of Constitutional Innovation (under contract)
William D. Blake, Joseph Francesco Cozza, David A. Armstrong II, Amanda Friesen
Elements in Comparative Political Behaviour, Cambridge University Press, 2024
Peer-Reviewed Articles
Social Capital, Institutional Rules, and Constitutional Amendment Rates
William D. Blake, Joseph Francesco Cozza, David A. Armstrong II, Amanda Friesen
American Political Science Review, vol. 118(2), 2024, pp. 1075-83
A Positivist, Baseball-Centric Critique of Originalism
William D. Blake
Constitutional Commentary, vol. 37(2), 2022, pp. 133-47
Risk and Reform: Explaining Support for Constitutional Convention Referendums
William D. Blake, Ian G. Anson
State Politics & Policy Quarterly, vol. 20(3), 2020, pp. 330-55
American Constitutional Faith and the Politics of Hermeneutics
Andrew R. Lewis, William D. Blake, Stephen T. Mockabee, Amanda Friesen
Politics and Religion, vol. 13(1), 2020, pp. 57-88
"Justice Under the Constitution, Not Over It": Public Perceptions of FDR's Court-Packing Plan
William D. Blake
Presidential Studies Quarterly, vol. 49(1), 2019, pp. 204-18
"One Difficulty of a Serious Nature": The Overlooked Racial Dynamics of the Electoral College
William D. Blake
The Forum, vol. 17(2), 2019 Jul, pp. 315-43
Judicial Independence on Unelected State Supreme Courts
William D. Blake
Justice System Journal, vol. 39(1), 2018, pp. 21-38
The Limits of Veneration: Public Support for a New Constitutional Convention
William D. Blake, Sanford V. Levinson
Constitutional Studies, vol. 2(1), 2016, pp. 1-22
Seasonal Affective Disorder: Clerk Training and the Success of Supreme Court Certiorari Petitions
William D. Blake, Hans J. Hacker, Shon R. Hopwood
Law & Society Review, vol. 49(4), 2015, pp. 973-97
The Politics of Denying Communion to Catholic Elected Officials
William D. Blake, Amanda Friesen
The Forum, vol. 11(4), 2013 Dec, pp. 671-82
Pyrrhic Victories: How the Secularization Doctrine Undermines the Sanctity of Religion
William D. Blake
Journal of Church and State, vol. 55(1), 2013 Jan, pp. 1-22
God Save This Honorable Court: Religion as a Source of Judicial Policy Preferences
William D. Blake
Political Research Quarterly, vol. 65(4), 2012, pp. 814-26
William Blake
PS: Political Science & Politics, vol. 45(2), 2012 Apr, pp. 271-76
"The Brooding Spirit of the Law": Supreme Court Justices Reading Dissents from the Bench
William D. Blake, Hans J. Hacker
Justice System Journal, vol. 31(1), 2010, pp. 1-25
Other Publications
William D. Blake
Maryland Law Review, vol. 83(1), 2023, pp. 314-30
Assessing the Barriers to Success in Undergraduate Research Methods Courses
William D. Blake, Carolyn Forestiere
Jeffrey Bernstein, Teaching Political Methodology , Edward Elgar, Northampton, MA, 2021, pp. 194-207
William D. Blake
Maryland Law Review, vol. 79(1), 2019, pp. 216-56
When Americans Think about Constitutional Reform: Some Data and Reflections
Sanford Levinson, William Blake
Ohio State Law Journal, vol. 77(2), 2016, pp. 211-36
Pine Tar and the Infield Fly Rule: An Umpire Perspective on the Hart-Dworkin Jurisprudential Debate
William D. Blake
William J. Simons, The Cooperstown Symposium on Baseball and American Culture: 2013-2014, McFarland, Jefferson City, NC, 2015, pp. 244--57
Hans J. Hacker, William D. Blake
Berkeley Journal of African-American Law and Policy, vol. 8(1), 2006, pp. 5-59
Jurisprudence Transcending Time and Space: Affirmative Action and the Revolution of 1937
William Blake
Dartmouth College Undergraduate Journal of Law, vol. 3, 2005, pp. 19-28
The Filibuster and the Founding Fathers
William Blake
Parliamentary Journal, vol. 44, 2003, pp. 43-53