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Donald R. Songer
Researcher at University of South Carolina
Publications - 82
Citations - 3489
Donald R. Songer is an academic researcher from University of South Carolina. The author has contributed to research in topics: Supreme court & Court of record. The author has an hindex of 32, co-authored 82 publications receiving 3351 citations.
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The Aggregate Dynamics of Lower Court Responses to the US Supreme Court
TL;DR: This article argued that given finite resources to review the large number of lower court decisions, the Supreme Court justices should primarily be interested in aggregate responses to their precedents, and they argued that the majority of the lower-court decisions should be reviewed in aggregate.
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Judge Gender and the Voting Behavior of Justices on Two North American Supreme Courts
TL;DR: The first female justice in the United States and the first female judge in Canada are on record as having very different beliefs about the practical effect of gender diversification of appellate courts.
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Presidential success through appointments to the United States courts of appeals
Ashlyn Kuersten,Donald R. Songer +1 more
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors explore whether presidents are as successful at the courts of appeals level as they are at the federal level and explore the influences on presidential success in nominating judges to these courts who then vote in concordance with their policy preferences.