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Michael C. Dorf
Researcher at Cornell University
Publications - 114
Citations - 2078
Michael C. Dorf is an academic researcher from Cornell University. The author has contributed to research in topics: Supreme court & Constitution. The author has an hindex of 16, co-authored 110 publications receiving 1971 citations. Previous affiliations of Michael C. Dorf include Georgia State University & Victoria University of Wellington.
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A Constitution of Democratic Experimentalism
Michael C. Dorf,Charles F. Sabel +1 more
TL;DR: In this article, the authors identify a new form of government, democratic experimentalism, in which power is decentralized to enable citizens and other actors to utilize their local knowledge to fit solutions to their individual circumstances, but in which regional and national coordinating bodies require actors to share their knowledge with others.
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A Constitution of Democratic Experimentalism
Michael C. Dorf,Charles F. Sabel +1 more
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors identify a new form of government, democratic experimentalism, in which power is decentralized to enable citizens and other actors to utilize their local knowledge to fit solutions to their individual circumstances, but in which regional and national coordinating bodies require actors to share their knowledge with others.
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Why some things are darker when wet
John Lekner,Michael C. Dorf +1 more
TL;DR: The probability of internal reflection is calculated more accurately, and the effect on absorption of the decrease of the relative refractive index (liquid to material instead of air to material) is estimated, which decreases the albedo of the wetted surface.
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On Reading the Constitution
TL;DR: In this article, the authors propose a reader's guide to read the US Constitution as a Reader's Guide and a summary of cases in which the author discusses how not to read it.
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Strange Bedfellows: How an Anticipatory Countermovement Brought Same‐Sex Marriage into the Public Arena
Michael C. Dorf,Sidney Tarrow +1 more
TL;DR: This paper explored the hypothesis that the LGBT movement was brought to the fight for marriage equality by the anticipatory countermobilization of social conservatives who opposed same-sex marriage before there was a realistic prospect that it would be recognized by the courts or political actors.