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Journal of Law and Courts. 8:51-73
Because decision making is complicated, political elites seek advice when making decisions, and the ways in which they use that advice has systematic features. But, analyses of decision making among elites usually fail to account for advice. We take
Autor:
Sara C. Benesh
Publikováno v:
Law & Society Review. 50:1048-1051
Supreme Court Confirmation Hearings and Constitutional Change. By Paul M. Collins, Jr., and Lori A. Ringhand. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2013. 296 pp. $32.99 paperback.This book does exactly what a scholarly manuscript ought to do: It offe
Autor:
Sara C. Benesh
The study of courts has been tremendously advanced via the availability of data, key to an empirical, scientific analysis of the decision-making of the political actors that make up the judiciary. Data availability has also enabled a rich and complet
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Publikováno v:
Justice System Journal. 35:162-177
We seek to understand the Supreme Court's “Grant, Vacate, and Remand” (GVR) dispositions and the reaction to those dispositions by the U.S. Court of Appeals. Drawing on data from four Court terms, we trace the reaction of the lower courts to GVR
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American Politics Research. 37:75-106
In the language of principal agency, it is important to know whether lower courts are faithful agents to their judicial principal (Benesh and Martinek 2002, 126). But it is also important to know whether that faithfulness stems from an institutional
Publikováno v:
American Journal of Political Science. 52:490-503
Existing scholarship on the voting behavior of U.S. Courts of Appeals judges finds that their decisions are best understood as a function of law, policy preferences, and factors relating to the institutional context of the circuit court. What previou
Autor:
Harold J. Spaeth, Sara C. Benesh
Publikováno v:
American Politics Research. 35:755-768
To study the behavior of judges, one must first consider whether judges are just like any other political actor (e.g., legislators) or whether, because of their affiliation with the judiciary, law constrains their behavior to some extent. Research ai
Autor:
Sara C. Benesh
Publikováno v:
The Journal of Politics. 68:697-707
While studies of public confidence in institutions have long been a part of the public opinion literature, systematic analysis of public confidence in America's lower courts has been missing. This is troubling, especially since support for the rule o
Autor:
Sara C. Benesh, Malia Reddick
Publikováno v:
The Journal of Politics. 64:534-550
While past research has demonstrated widespread compliance in the Courts of Appeals with Supreme Court precedent (e.g., Gruhl 1980; Songer 1987; Songer, Segal, and Cameron 1994; Songer and Sheehan 1990), compliance is not automatic and is surely poli
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American Politics Research. 30:219-234
Given that the Supreme Court usually reverses the decision of the court below, why would justices who agree with that decision vote to hear the case? In other words, why would affirmminded justices vote to grant cert? Scholars refer to such behavior