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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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Judge Gender, Critical Mass, and Decision Making in the Appellate Courts of Canada
TL;DR: This article explored gendered patterns of voting, and whether such patterns appear only after a critical mass of female justices is reached by analyzing the votes of justices in the Supreme Court of Canada.
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Explaining Dissent on the Supreme Court of Canada
TL;DR: This paper found that the likelihood of dissension is strongly related to four broad factors that appear to exert independent influence on whether the Court is consensual or divided: political conflict, institutional structure, legal ambiguity in the law and variations in the leadership style of the chief justice.
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The View from the Bench and Chambers: Examining Judicial Process and Decision Making on the U.S. Courts of Appeals
TL;DR: The View from the Bench and Chambers as mentioned in this paper is the most comprehensive and rich account of the operation of the U.S. Court of Appeals in the United States to date. But it does not address the role of the court of appeals in the criminal justice system.
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Supreme Court Precedent in a Judicial Hierarchy
TL;DR: The authors argue that policy-oriented justices are particularly attentive to the impact of their precedents within the U.S. Courts of Appeals, and provide a framework in which both Supreme Court and circuit-level influences drive U. S. Court of Appeals responses to the Supreme Court's precedents.