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Showing 1 to 11 of 11 for “"judicial behavior"”.
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Teisėjų elgesio teisingumo vertinimo veiksniai civilinėje justicijoje /
… determine factors of civil party’s judgments of judicial behavior fairness and evaluate judicial compliance with procedural fairness requirements. 151 litigants were surveyed and 106 judges’ behavior in 181 court hearings of civil cases was analyzed. Results of the first part of the research show …
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The role of courts in regulatory policy: The case of telecommunications regulation
… in regulatory policy by means of statutory judicial review, and a theory of statutory judicial review is needed to account for judicial behavior in this respect. The theory this essay presents structures statutory judicial review as a game in which players try to materialize their motives as …
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Sandra Day O'Connor: Moderate or Something More?
… Day O'Connor. This paper attempts to expand judicial behavior scholarship by examining O'Connor's policy preferences for possible ideological change during her twenty-five year tenure on the Court. Average liberalism scores for her overall and civil rights/civil liberties issue area votes …
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The Roberts Court Constitution of Freedom of Speech: Preferences, Principles, and the Study of Supreme Court Decision-making
… 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 businesses and corporations). Few issues have proven as vexing as the Court’s …
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Partisanship, Election Reform and Decision-Making in the North Carolina Supreme Court: A Case Study
… arrangements (including selection systems) on judicial decision-making. The thesis examines whether any detectable differences appeared between judicial behavior and the decisional output of the North Carolina Supreme Court in its partisan era (1995-2004) and in its nonpartisan era (2005-2011). …
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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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International Law In the Supreme Court of the United States: An Empirical Analysis
… model has been the dominant explanation for judicial behavior for the last twenty years. However, political scientists have found that the attitudinal model is not adequate to explain the outcomes in cases involving foreign policy. Instead, it appears that other considerations, such as the …
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The Myth of the Second Amendment
… founding-era context, then tests explanations of judicial behavior, and finally applies that framework to Heller, McDonald, and Bruen. Chapter 1 sets a baseline by placing the Amendment in its founding-era political context, including fears of centralized tyranny, federal overreach, and the view …
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Domestic Courts and Global Governance: the Politics of Private International Law
… and theories of international relations, judicial behavior, and bounded rationality, I develop a series of hypotheses about the legal and political factors that influence judicial allocation of governance authority. I then statistically test these hypotheses using original data on U.S. …
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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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Judges and Their Loyalties: A Comparative Study Focused On the Venezuelan Supreme Court
… In addition to the traditional approaches to judicial decision-making, I contend that the existence of informal linkages between judges and political elites is a key explanation for judicial behavior, especially in cases in which courts are asked to hold the government accountable. In contexts …