Peer-Reviewed Articles

• Hood, M. V. III, David A. Hughes, and Seth McKee. 2025. “MAGA Trumps the Incumbency Advantage in a Dueling Incumbent Primary.” American Politics Research, 53(2): 103-13.
• Vining, Richard L. Jr., Teena Wilhelm, David A. Hughes, and Aidan González. 2024. “Diversity of Judicial Leadership in the American States.” Polity, 56(3): 408-33.
• Hughes, David A., Teena Wilhelm, and Xuan Wang. 2023. “Updating PAJID Scores for State Supreme Court Justices (1970-2019).” State Politics & Policy Quarterly, 23(4): 463-70.
• Wilhelm, Teena, Richard L. Vining, Jr., and David A. Hughes. 2023. “Chief Justice Selection Rules and Judicial Ideology.” State Politics & Policy Quarterly, 23(3): 267-82.
• Hughes, David A. 2022. “Local Media Coverage of Candidates for State Supreme Courts.” Justice System Journal, 43(3): 238-59.
• Howard, Nicholas O. and David A. Hughes. 2022. “Revisiting Senatorial Courtesy and the Selection of Judges to the U.S. Courts of Appeals.” Political Research Quarterly, 75(1): 61-75. (Supplementary Appendix)
• Hughes, David A. 2020. “Does Local Journalism Stimulate Voter Participation in State Supreme Courts?” Journal of Law and Courts, 8(1): 95-126.
• Hughes, David A. 2019. “Judicial Institutions and the Political Economy of Retirements.” Political Behavior. 
• Hughes, David A. 2019. “New-Style Campaigns in State Supreme Court Retention Elections.” State Politics & Policy Quarterly, 19(2): 127-54.
• Vining, Richard L. Jr., Teena Wilhelm, and David A. Hughes. 2019. “The Chief Justice as Effective Administrative Leader: The Impact of Policy Scope and Interbranch Relations.” Social Science Quarterly, 100(4): 1358-68.
• Hughes, David A., Richard L. Vining Jr., and Teena Wilhelm. 2017. “The Politics of the U.S. Federal Judiciary’s Requests for Institutional Reform.” Social Science Quarterly, 98(5): 1277-95.
• Hughes, David A., Teena Wilhelm, and Richard L. Vining, Jr. 2015. “Deliberation Rules and Opinion Assignment Procedures in State Supreme Courts: A Replication.” Justice System Journal, 36(4): 395-410.
• Haire, Susan, Barry Edwards, and David A. Hughes. 2013.  “The Voting Behavior of President Obama’s Appointees on the U.S. Courts of Appeals.”  Judicature, Vol. 97:  137–143.

Book Chapters

• Hughes, David A. and Nathan Jordan. Forthcoming. “Alabama: The Political Evolution of a One-Party State.” In The New Politics of the Old South: An Introduction to Southern Politics, 8th ed. Bloomsbury Publishing.
• Hughes, David A. 2024. “Decision Making on U.S. State Courts.” In Research Handbook on Judicial Politics, Edited by Michael P. Fix and Matthew Montgomery. Elgar Publishing.
• Hughes, David A. 2021. “Alabama: Polarized and Uncompetitive.” in The New Politics of the Old South: An Introduction to Southern Politics, Vol. 7. Edited by Charles S. Bullock, III and Mark Rozell. Rowman and Littlefield.
• Hughes, David A. 2018. “Alabama: Race, Realignment, and One-Party Politics.” In The New Politics of the Old South: An Introduction to Southern Politics, Vol. 6. Edited by Charles S. Bullock, III and Mark Rozell. Rowman and Littlefield.

Book Reviews

• Hughes, David A. 2022. “Review: US Supreme Court Doctrine in the State High Courts (By Michael P. Fix and Benjamin J. Kassow).” Law and Politics Book Review, Vol. 32(8).
• Hughes, David A. 2019. “Review: Judicial Elections in the 21st Century. (Edited by Chris W. Bonneau and Melinda Gann Hall).” Law and Politics Book Review, Vol. 29(3): 31-3.
• Hughes, David A. 2014.  “Review: The Behavior of Federal Judges: A Theoretical and Empirical Study of Rational Choice.  (By Lee Epstein, William M. Landes, and Richard A. Posner).”  The Journal of Politics, Vol. 7 (2).