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Jeff Yates
Researcher at Binghamton University
Publications - 59
Citations - 1088
Jeff Yates is an academic researcher from Binghamton University. The author has contributed to research in topics: Supreme court & Politics. The author has an hindex of 19, co-authored 59 publications receiving 1044 citations. Previous affiliations of Jeff Yates include Washington University in St. Louis & University of Georgia.
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Politics and State Punitiveness in Black and White
Jeff Yates,Richard C. Fording +1 more
TL;DR: This paper found that increases in state political conservatism in recent decades have contributed to increases in both the growth in black imprisonment rates and black imprisonment disparity (relative to whites), but that these effects are, to a degree, tempered by countervailing political conditions.
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Homegrown Institutional Legitimacy Assessing Citizens' Diffuse Support for State Courts
Damon M. Cann,Jeff Yates +1 more
TL;DR: The authors found that although many factors affecting diffuse support for state courts parallel the determinants of such support for the nation's high court, important differences exist between explanations of citizen support for other American courts and the Supreme Court.
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Policy Signals and Executive Governance: Presidential Rhetoric in the War on Drugs
Andrew B. Whitford,Jeff Yates +1 more
TL;DR: In this article, the authors present statistical tests of the managerial power of presidential policy signals in the case of the United States Attorneys' implementation of the federal “War on Drugs.
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Politics and State Punitiveness in Black and White
Jeff Yates,Richard C. Fording +1 more
TL;DR: This article found that increases in state political conservatism in recent decades have contributed to increases in both the growth in black imprisonment rates and black imprisonment disparity (relative to whites), but that these effects are, to a degree, tempered by countervailing political conditions.
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Presidential Power and the United States Supreme Court
Andrew B. Whitford,Jeff Yates +1 more
TL;DR: In this article, the authors apply a similar model to the voting records of United States Supreme Court Justices in such presidential power cases and find that justices' decisions to support the president are conditioned upon presidents' public approval ratings and the justices' ideological inclinations.