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Showing 1 to 10 of 10 for “"Supreme Court Decision-Making"”.
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Separation of Church and State: The Dynamics of Supreme Court Decision-Making
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The Roberts Court Constitution of Freedom of Speech: Preferences, Principles, and the Study of Supreme Court Decision-making
… of Chief Justice G. Roberts to the U.S. Supreme Court, political scientists and legal scholars have assessed the Court’s behavior in a diverse array of cases and issue areas, including those touching on federalism, reproductive rights, voting rights, and economic liberty (cases involving …
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Pickering v. Board of Education - A study in Supreme Court decision making in the area of public employee rights.
Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Dept. of Urban Studies and Planning. Thesis. 1974. M.C.P.
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Language technologies for understanding law, politics, and public policy
… an authorship attribution model on unsigned U.S. Supreme Court opinions, offering insights into the authorship of important cases and the dynamics of Supreme Court decision-making. Second, we apply software engineering metrics to analyze the complexity of the United States Code of Laws, thereby …
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Taking precedents seriously: The influence of stare decisis on judicial decision-making.
The author examines the influence of precedent on Supreme Court decision-making in Canada. Despite its importance, very little is actually known about the factors that affect judicial decision-making. The thesis begins by defining the doctrine of precedent, discusses the virtues of adhering to a …
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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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External Constraints and Internal Norms on the U.S. Supreme Court
… expectation that justices come to unanimous decisions without dissenting votes. Specifically, I tackle the tension between justices' pursuit of ideological objectives and institutional ones. In other words, I address the questions why the Court can come to consensus at all and why do …
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The Myth of the Second Amendment
… traces the evolution of the United States Supreme Court’s interpretation of the Second Amendment, which shifted from a constitutional provision grounded in collective security and concerns about tyranny to a modern doctrine emphasizing an individual right to possess firearms. It contends …
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Solicitor Success: The Continuing Exploration of the Determinants of Governmental Success at the Supreme Court, 1986-2005
Studies of the Supreme Court consistently show that the Office of the Solicitor General enjoys remarkable success before the Supreme Court, both at the certiorari stage and at the merits stage. These studies offer a variety of explanations for Solicitor General success, but fail to portray …