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Autor:
Michael A. Bailey, Forrest Maltzman
How do Supreme Court justices decide their cases? Do they follow their policy preferences? Or are they constrained by the law and by other political actors? The Constrained Court combines new theoretical insights and extensive data analysis to show t
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Justice System Journal. 37:20-38
Over the past sixty years, the size of the Supreme Court's docket has varied tremendously, growing at some points in time and shrinking at others. What accounts for this variation in the size of the docket? We focus on two key strategic factors—the
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Journal of Law and Courts. 2:219-240
Legislative enactment is only one step in the life of a law. How a law shapes public life after enactment is frequently the result of whether the judiciary interprets the provisions contained in a law and how courts reconcile provisions within and ac
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PS: Political Science & Politics. 45:395-400
In this article, we use a multimethod approach to shed light on the strategic use of presidential pets. We draw on primary source materials to demonstrate that pets are an important power center in the White House. Then we turn to presidents' strateg
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Congress & the Presidency. 38:1-15
Students of Congress highlight the connections that legislators cultivate with constituents, bonds that help to secure voters’ trust and incumbents’ reelection. We revisit the forces that shape citizens’ evaluations of their senators, embedding
Autor:
Forrest Maltzman, Michael Bailey
Publikováno v:
American Political Science Review. 102:369-384
To understand and assess the impact that the law has on judicial decision-making on the U.S. Supreme Court, one must disentangle the effects of law and policy preferences. In this paper, we elaborate the fundamental character of this challenge, and t
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American Journal of Political Science. 52:471-489
The salience of judicial appointments in contemporary American politics has precipitated a surge of scholarly interest in the dynamics of advice and consent in the U.S. Senate. In this article, we compare alternative pivotal politics models of the ju
Autor:
Charles R. Shipan, Forrest Maltzman
Publikováno v:
American Journal of Political Science. 52:252-267
Congress regularly passes significant laws. Some of these laws continue in their initial form, with the original bargain struck by the enacting coalition untouched by any future laws; others are changed—strengthened or weakened—soon after passage
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American Journal of Political Science. 51:890-905
Some scholars argue that the author of the majority opinion exercises the most influence over the Court’s opinion-writing process and so can determine what becomes Court policy, at least within the limits of what some Court majority finds acceptabl
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PS: Political Science & Politics. 39:297-301
On April 19, 2005, after just four rounds of voting, the College of Cardinals announced that 78-year-old Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger had been se lected as the new pope. This announce ment startled many. To be sure, as prefect of the Congregation for th