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John Szmer

Researcher at University of North Carolina at Charlotte

Publications -  25
Citations -  407

John Szmer is an academic researcher from University of North Carolina at Charlotte. The author has contributed to research in topics: Supreme court & Majority opinion. The author has an hindex of 12, co-authored 25 publications receiving 362 citations.

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Party Capability and the US Courts of Appeals: Understanding Why the “Haves” Win

TL;DR: This article examined the potential causal mechanisms underlying party capability theory and found that the advantages of the haves extend to all parties, though to a lesser extent than the advantages enjoyed by the US government.
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Gender, Race, and Dissensus on State Supreme Courts*

TL;DR: The authors found evidence of the intersectionality of race and gender: while white women and African-American males were less likely to dissent than white males, African American women were the most likely to cast dissenting votes.
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High Court Recruitment of Female Clerks: A Comparative Analysis of the U.S. Supreme Court and the Supreme Court of Canada

TL;DR: In this article, the authors systematically analyzed the available data on SCOTUS clerk appointments to more thoroughly investigate the gender disparity in the hiring practices of its justices across the time period, 1941 to 2011, and compare this data, whenever possible, to that collected for the SCC from 1967 to 2007.