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Despite several decades of research on Supreme Court decision-making by specialists in judicial politics, there is no good answer to a key question: if each justice's behavior on the Court were motivated solely by some kind of “liberal” or “con
The first transnational comparative study of legal party capability theory Justice is supposed to be blind. Cynics will say they know better. But what do the facts say? This groundbreaking study provides objective, data-driven answers to long-standin
Publikováno v:
Routledge Handbook of Judicial Behavior ISBN: 9781315691527
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https://doi.org/10.4324/9781315691527-15
https://doi.org/10.4324/9781315691527-15
Autor:
Reginald S. Sheehan, Kirk A. Randazzo
Publikováno v:
Australian Journal of Political Science. 47:239-255
The authors examine the influence of party capability theory while controlling for legal-structural and doctrinal changes in the High Court. Based on their analysis of cases from 1970 to 2003, several notable conclusions emerge. The most interesting
Autor:
Reginald S. Sheehan, William M. Myers
Publikováno v:
Commonwealth & Comparative Politics. 50:171-189
Institutional theory suggests that policy views of a Court in democratic regimes are never far out of line for long with the policy views of the dominant lawmaking majorities because of relatively regular turnover in the membership of the Court. The
Autor:
Reginald S. Sheehan
Publikováno v:
Southeastern Political Review. 24:55-75
This study focuses on the relationship between the Solicitor General and the Supreme Court in cases involving the federal government as a direct party in litigation. Particular attention is given to the impact of presidential appointments on the succ
Publikováno v:
Experimental Economics. 11:315-335
This paper studies a situation wherein a set of voters choose between two alternatives in the presence of a payoff externality. Specifically, regardless of her intrinsic preference, a voter’s payoff is maximized should she vote for the alternative
Autor:
William Mishler, Reginald S. Sheehan
Publikováno v:
The Journal of Politics. 58:169-200
Recent aggregate-level research on the United States Supreme Court suggests that shifting tides of public opinion can have important effects on Supreme Court decisions. Moreover, these effects can be both direct (i.e., unmediated by other institution
Publikováno v:
American Political Science Review. 88:711-724
In their 1993 article in this Review, William Mishler and Reginald Sheehan reported evidence of both direct and indirect impacts of public opinion on Supreme Court decisions. Helmut Norpoth and Jeffrey Segal offer a methodological critique and in the
Autor:
Reginald S. Sheehan, Donald R. Songer
Publikováno v:
Political Research Quarterly. 46:339-354
Over the past two decades there has been a rapid increase in the number of amicus curiae briefs filed in the Supreme Court. Some cases studied suggest that these briefs may have a substantial effect on the Supreme Court's decisions, but no systematic