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Supreme court
About: Supreme court is a research topic. Over the lifetime, 41858 publications have been published within this topic receiving 306787 citations. The topic is also known as: court of last resort & highest court of appeal.
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TL;DR: Theory-based personal attributes models of the civil rights and liberties and economics decision making of the Canadian Supreme Court justices serving from 1949-1985 are developed from Lipset and Rokkan's (1967) approach to explain mass political behavior.
Abstract: Theory-based personal attributes models of the civil rights and liberties and economics decision making of the Canadian Supreme Court justices serving from 1949-1985 are developed from Lipset and Rokkan's (1967) approach to explaining mass political behavior. The models show both behaviors to be influenced by Quebec/non-Quebec regional origins and religious affiliation, political party, being appointed by the last laissez faire Liberal Prime Minister, King, and having judicial and political experience. The models are reasonably potent, statistically. Their most important attributes capture crucial dimensions in contemporary Canadian politics, region, and party, and also have implications for the cross-national study of judicial behavior.
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TL;DR: This paper found that respondents put high importance on the political leanings of potential US Supreme Court candidates, and that they evaluated potential US SC candidates using a novel, two-part conjoint experiment.
Abstract: How do Americans evaluate potential US Supreme Court candidates? Using a novel, two-part conjoint experiment, I show that respondents put high importance on the political leanings of potential Cour...
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01 Jan 1997
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors discuss the legal masks, legal consciousness, and legal backlash in the era of Congressional Ascendancy over Tribes: 1886-1903, and the Era of "Myths": Citizenship, Nomadism and Moral Progress.
Abstract: * Preface * Acknowledgments * Chapter 1. Legal Masks, Legal Consciousness * Chapter 2. The Era of Defining Tribes, Their Lands, and Their Sovereignty * Chapter 3. The Era of Congressional Ascendancy over Tribes: 1886-1903 * Chapter 4. The Era of "Myths": Citizenship, Nomadism, and Moral Progress * Chapter 5. The Era of Judicial Backlash and Land Claims * Chapter 6. The Era of the Imperial Judiciary * Chapter 7. Removing the Masks * Appendix A. Cases Cited * Appendix B. Supreme Court Justices Authoring the Fifteen Opinions Analyzed * Notes * Glossary * References * Index
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TL;DR: Ourdata et al. as discussed by the authors show that there is a very strong rightward drift in the composition of the Supreme Court as they move from the Warren Court to the Burger Court, and again as we move from Burger Court tothe Rehnquist Court.
Abstract: Given the fundamental unidimensionality in thedata on Supreme Court voting patterns1951–1993 we observe, we are able todetermine the identity of ``median'' membersof each court in a fashion that does notrequire subjective coding of the extent towhich particular cases reflect left-rightissues. Also, while the exact numericalvalues of MDS-obtained locations cannot becompared across different ``natural courts'',the positions of Supreme Court justicesacross their careers relative to the courtson which they served can be traced. Ourdata show overwhelming quantified evidenceof a very strong rightward drift (relativeto our MDS defined dimensions) in thecomposition of the court as we move fromthe Warren Court to the Burger Court, andagain as we move from the Burger Court tothe Rehnquist Court.
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TL;DR: In this paper, the role of challengers in elections to the states' highest courts was investigated, under what conditions do incumbents draw challengers, and do these same conditions influence whether the challengers entering these races have sufficient experience to pose a threat to the officeholders.
Abstract: In this paper, we answer two important questions about the role of challengers in elections to the states' highest courts: (1) under what conditions do incumbents draw challengers, and (2) do these same conditions influence whether the challengers entering these races have sufficient experience to pose a threat to the officeholders (i.e., are they quality challengers). While the factors related to each electoral contest and the forces characterizing the overall political climate of the state should affect the type of challenge, if any, we also expect institutions to matter. Specifically, factors governing the attractiveness of supreme court seats, as well as the formal means by which judicial elections are organized, all should serve to enhance or inhibit competition. In an analysis of all 146 partisan and nonpartisan elections to state supreme courts from 1988 through 1995, we find that competition from both inexperienced and experienced challengers is predictable from some basic information about the incumbents, the states, and the institutional context. Like legislators, judges can influence their chances of being challenged only to a limited degree. However, the states can increase or decrease competition to some extent by manipulating electoral system characteristics and a variety of factors that make supreme court seats more or less valuable. In fact, under certain scenarios, state supreme courts may be more democratic in character and function than is generally recognized or perhaps preferred.
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