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Robert M. Howard
Researcher at Georgia State University
Publications - 40
Citations - 703
Robert M. Howard is an academic researcher from Georgia State University. The author has contributed to research in topics: Supreme court & Judicial opinion. The author has an hindex of 13, co-authored 39 publications receiving 663 citations. Previous affiliations of Robert M. Howard include Washington University in St. Louis.
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Framing Support for the Supreme Court in the Aftermath of Bush v. Gore
TL;DR: This paper examined how framing the controversy in these terms shaped the Court's public support and found that framing the decision in terms of partisan decision making influenced specific support, but it did not affect diffuse support.
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Buyer Beware? Presidential Success through Supreme Court Appointments
TL;DR: The authors empirically examined Dahl's hypothesis that justices actually support the policy preferences of the presidents who appoint them and found that justices on average appear to deviate over time away from the Presidents who appointed them.
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Is an Independent Judiciary Necessary for Democracy
Robert M. Howard,Henry F. Carey +1 more
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With Friends Like These: Rule-Making Comment Submissions to the Securities and Exchange Commission
TL;DR: J-PART is abstracted or indexed in Humanities Abstracts, Humanities Full Text, International Political Science Abstracts and OMNIFILE Full Text Mega Edition, PAIS International, Policy Currents.
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The Supreme Court and Opinion Content: The Use of the Federalist Papers
TL;DR: This paper found evidence that the use of the Federalist Papers represents externally and internally oriented strategic attempts by the justices to add legitimacy to constitutional interpretation, and to sway colleagues, and used a combination of descriptive and multivariate techniques to examine Federalist citations from 1953 to 1995 to demonstrate their interpretation.