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Majority opinion
About: Majority opinion is a research topic. Over the lifetime, 4107 publications have been published within this topic receiving 54845 citations. The topic is also known as: opinion of the court.
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29 Aug 2005
TL;DR: This article examined how public finance shapes individual preferences towards immigration policy in the United States and found that there is no strong majority opinion about US immigration policy within a group whose members tend to agree on political issues (i.e., liberals, conservatives, isolationists, internationalists, environmentalists, free marketers).
Abstract: Immigration is an issue capable of dividing otherwise like-minded people. Identify a group whose members tend to agree on political issues - liberals, conservatives, isolationists, internationalists, environmentalists, free marketers - and one will tend to find that within the group there is no strong majority opinion about US immigration policy. This important new book examines how public finance shapes individual preferences towards immigration policy in the United States.
70 citations
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01 Jan 1960
TL;DR: This paper revealed Johnson as a small-minded, vindictive, and stubborn man, whose rigid determination to defy Northern majority opinion thwarted the post-war reunion of North and South, revealing him as a self-interested leader.
Abstract: An essential work on the Civil War period, this classic of Reconstruction scholarship challenges the longstanding myth of Andrew Johnson as misunderstood statesman, revealing him as a small-minded, vindictive, and stubborn man, whose rigid determination to defy Northern majority opinion thwarted the post-war reunion of North and South.
69 citations
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06 Apr 1995
69 citations
TL;DR: This article observed that people conform to majority opinion, a phenomenon sometimes referred to as the "bandwagon effect" in the political domain, and that people learn about prevailing public opinion from the media.
Abstract: Psychologists have long observed that people conform to majority opinion, a phenomenon sometimes referred to as the ‘bandwagon effect’. In the political domain people learn about prevailing public ...
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TL;DR: The Rehnquist Court's federalism decisions have sparked contentious debate about the role of the Supreme Court in the American political system as mentioned in this paper, and the reasons behind the Court's revival of federalism and the controversy it has produced.
Abstract: The Rehnquist Court's federalism decisions have sparked contentious debate about the role of the Court in the American political system. This article examines the reasons behind the Court's revival of federalism and the controversy it has produced. The first part reviews the normative jurisprudential debate over the Court's role as it has been cast in the legal academy. In the second part, we turn to an historical-empirical, or “political regimes,” framework for understanding the role of the Supreme Court. Although this framework provides a better explanation of the Rehnquist Court's foray into federalism, the connections between this approach and normative jurisprudential debates remain important, and we explore them in the final section. The Court's recent jurisprudence on federalism reflects both consensus and division within the current political regime—consensus that federalism is an important value, but division over how best to protect that value. We argue that competing jurisprudential theories over the role of the Court illustrate these political divisions. Thus, this article highlights the special insights political scientists bring to the subject, but also demonstrates how the two approaches can be usefully combined to provide a more robust understanding of the Court's role in the American political system.The authors thank Richard Brisbin, John Dinan, Mark Graber, Ashley Grosse, Jennifer Hochschild, Tom Keck, David O'Brien, Bob Turner, and the anonymous reviewers for their comments and suggestions along the way.
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