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Crafting Law on the Supreme Court: The Collegial Game
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In this article, a strategic response to draft opinions is presented, along with the decision to accommodate and the politics of coalition formation in the context of coalitions in the European Parliament.Abstract:
1. Introduction 2. Selecting an author: assigning the majority opinion 3. A strategic response to draft opinions 4. The decision to accommodate 5. The politics of coalition formation 6. Conclusion.read more
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Courts under Constraints: Judges, Generals, and Presidents in Argentina
TL;DR: In this paper, a theoretical framework for understanding how institutional instability affects judicial behavior under dictatorship and democracy is proposed, and a set of connections among diverse bodies of scholarship, including US judicial politics, comparative institutional analysis, positive political theory, and Latin American politics.
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Signals from the Tenth Justice: The Political Role of the Solicitor General in Supreme Court Decision Making
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors argue justices will be more receptive to signals from the solicitor general (S.G.) when either the justice and S.G. are ideologically proximate or the SG.s signal is contrary to his ideological predisposition.
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Institutional Dynamics on the U.S. Court of Appeals: Minority Representation Under Panel Decision Making
Sean Farhang,Gregory J. Wawro +1 more
TL;DR: The authors assesses how the institutional context of decision making on three-judge panels of the federal Court of Appeals affects the impact that gender and race have on judicial decisions and find that the norm of unanimity on panels grants women influence over outcomes even when they are outnumbered on a panel.
Out of the Closets and into the Courts
TL;DR: Out of the Closets and into the Courts as discussed by the authors analyzes the most recent gay rights cases, and explores the complex relationship between litigation and social change, exploring both the promise and the limits of using legal mobilization to effect social change.
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On the Ideological Foundations of Supreme Court Legitimacy in the American Public
TL;DR: This article found that subjective ideological disagreement exhibits a potent, deleterious impact on legitimacy and that the Court's ideological tenor exhibits sensible connections to legitimacy, depending on how people perceive the court's ideology.