I received an email this morning from SSRN that one of my papers made the SSRN “top ten list” for “Election Law and Voting Rights.” I’ve received such messages before about other lists (such as the “Legislation and Statutory Interpretation list”) but not about any Election Law List. You can find the top ten list here.
It seems to me that the list is very underinclusive. For example, it lists my Beyond Incoherence article at the top download ever on this list (at 456 downloads), but my Critical Guide to Bush v. Gore Scholarship, not listed, has 955 downloads. And what I consider the most important election law article of the last decade, Rick Pildes’s The Constitutionalization of Democratic Politics (290 downloads), is not on the list (nor is any work on the list by Pildes or many of the other leading scholars of election law). So this makes me wonder how the SSRN folks have decided which articles to include in this category. In any event, I would not rely upon the validity of this top ten list until more work has been done to make it include the large body of election law scholarship that has been posted on SSRN in the last decade.