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Showing 1 to 20 of 21 for “"Judicial Politics"”.
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Modern-Day Judicial "politics": An Analysis Of Federal District Court Decision Making In Contemporary, Politically Divisive Issue Areas
… well as opens up a whole new avenue of study for judicial scholars.</p>
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Judicial politics in the Privy Council: a legal analysis of its impact on the constitutionality of the death penalty in the Commonwealth Caribbean
… such as the Privy Council is the supreme judicial body for some Commonwealth countries. The main objective of this research is to understand the extent to which the Privy Council decision making on the constitutionality of the death penalty in the Commonwealth Caribbean influenced by …
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"Blind to Certain Truths": Social Movement Narratives, The Supreme Court, and Cultural Change
… everyday life. Research in social movements and judicial politics is thus becoming increasingly useful as social movement organizations increasingly compete before the Court to effect cultural change through the reification of their stories. Lesbian, gay and bisexuals form one group of …
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Rethinking Judicial Independence in Democracy and Autocracy
… their (often arbitrary) power, and respect judicial decisions even if the courts rule against them. But if political leaders are rational, why do they persist in their respectful behavior towards independent courts even when such courts may prove adverse to themselves? In other words, how …
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Essays in Political Economy
… result is incompatible with classical models of judicial politics and is unique to partisanship. To explain my results, I introduce a theoretical framework where judges' favored coalitions are more homogeneous along both partisan and non-partisan dimensions. Using judge metadata, I find …
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The Impact of Institutional Rules on the U.S. Supreme Court
Assessing Judicial Certainty: The Supreme Court's Use of Questions and Statements During Oral Arguments The United States Supreme Court hears oral arguments for every case granted full consideration. These proceedings are an hour in length with each party receiving exactly 30 minutes to state its …
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The Mythic Underpinnings of Originalism: A Rhetorical and Legal Analysis
… show how originalist rhetoric transforms judicial interpretation into ritual performance and mythic restoration. This analysis provides a critical framework for understanding originalism’s enduring power in American legal and political discourse.
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Judicial Behaviour in Investment Treaty Arbitration: Politics of the Minimum Standard of Treatment under the North American Free Trade Agreement
… the law that is also detached from the world of politics is possible. On the other hand, the perception that attitudinal and institutional constraints might determine the content of the law is common in international legal scholarship ranging from international relations approaches and the New …
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A Compliant Court: The Political Effects of the Addition of Judgeships to the United States Supreme Court Following Electoral Realignments
During periods of turmoil when ideological preferences between the federal branches of government fail to align, the relationship between the three quickly turns tumultuous. Electoral realignments especially have the potential to increase tension between the branches. When a new party replaces the …
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The Role of the U.S. Courts of Appeals in Legal Development: An Empirical Analysis
<p>What are the causes and consequences of legal development? In recent years courts scholars have begun to address these broad and challenging questions, yet there is still much work to be done. The intermediate level of the federal court system: a.k.a., circuit courts) provides an institutional …
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How women rule: judicial empathy and administrative court rulings
Submission original under an indefinite embargo labeled 'Open Access'. The submission was exported from vireo on 2022-11-11 without embargo terms
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The Rule of Law In Times of War: A Comparative Analysis of the Effect of War On High Court Decision-Making
<p> This study examined behavior modification programs in schools designed to focus on discipline and that aim to reform disruptive behavior in students, usually over a limited period of time. This was a comparative case study of two type II alternative schools in the Upstate of South Carolina. The …
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Placing Federal District Courts in the Judicial Hierarchy
… the same problem continues to plague judicial scholarship, particularly concerning federal district courts. Viewed as the sum of its three essays, this dissertation project seeks to remedy this deficit. The project relies on the collection and coding of thousands of case dockets, …
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Capital offenses, Non-Capital offenses, and Party Capability: Habeas Corpus Litigation in U.S. District Courts
<p>The principle of habeas corpus is among one of the most fundamental rights of those held in the custody of the U.S. Federal or state governments. While greatly overlooked over the past thirty years, habeas decisions are, in fact, a political process driven by political forces. I invoke …
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Judging the Bureaucrats: Understanding the Dynamics of Court-Agency Interaction
… models with impact theory to treat judicial review of agency action and agency implementation of those decisions as a single process rather than independent events. My theory focuses on three key factors that influence this process: the salience of the issues in a given case, the …
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The Politics of Constitutional Review: Evidence from the European Court of Justice
Judges who perform judicial review have the extraordinary power to strike down laws that do not conform to their own policy preferences. Their political independence is generally regarded as a normative good. In this work, I consider the microfoundations of judicial preferences and how those …
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What's the Public Got to Do With It? The Impact of Public Opinion on Judicial Decisions: An Empirical Analysis of Abortion Case Outcomes
… becomes more liberal within the state, so too do judicial decisions. Furthermore, the judge’s individual preferences are conditionally mildly significant when interacted with public opinion. The second paper focuses on the timing of the election cycle particularly cases which are heard within two …
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The role of the Supreme Court in antitrust enforcement.
For more than one hundred years, American antitrust laws have helped to define the legal framework supporting the continuously expanding and developing American economy. This legal framework has not remained unchanged; rather, the antitrust laws have been revised and re-interpreted at fairly …
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Rubber Stamps and Litmus Tests: The President, the Senate, and Judicial Voting Behavior in Abortion Cases in the U.S. Federal District Courts
This thesis focuses on how well indicators of judicial ideology and institutional constraints predict whether a judge will vote to increase abortion access. I develop a model that evaluates a judge's decision in an abortion case in light of ideological factors measured at the time of a judge's …
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