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Jack Knight
Researcher at Duke University
Publications - 51
Citations - 3739
Jack Knight is an academic researcher from Duke University. The author has contributed to research in topics: Politics & Supreme court. The author has an hindex of 23, co-authored 49 publications receiving 3630 citations. Previous affiliations of Jack Knight include University of Washington & Washington University in St. Louis.
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Institutions and Social Conflict
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors propose a new theory of institutional change that emphasises the distributional consequences of social institutions and explain the emergence of institutions as a byproduct of distributional conflict in which asymmetries of power in a society generate institutional solutions to conflicts.
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The Role of Constitutional Courts in the Establishment and Maintenance of Democratic Systems of Government
TL;DR: In this article, a model that draws on existing substantive literature and on theories that assume strategic behavior on the part of judges, executives, and legislatures is proposed to understand the behavior of the Russian Constitutional Court (Konstitucjonnyj sud).
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Aggregation and Deliberation: On the Possibility of Democratic Legitimacy:
Jack Knight,James Turner Johnson +1 more
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The Norm of Stare Decisis
Jack Knight,Lee Epstein +1 more
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors argue that if precedent is a norm, researchers would be unlikely to detect its presence by conventional examinations of the vote, since it would manifest itself throughout the decision making process in some of the following ways: attorneys' attention to precedent and justices' appeals to and respect for the doctrine.
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Changing Social Norms: Common Property, Bridewealth, and Clan Exogamy
Jean Ensminger,Jack Knight +1 more
TL;DR: This article developed a theoretical framework for explaining norm emergence and change that builds on Barth's idea of generative models and identified three mechanisms offered in the contemporary theoretical literature to account for the dynamic process of norm change: coordination on focal points, competitive selection among contracts, and bargaining.