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Perceptions of a Polarized Court: How Division among Justices Shapes the Supreme Court's Public Image. By Michael F. Salamone. Philadelphia: Temple University Press, 2018. 214p. $94.50 cloth, $32.95 paper
In: Perspectives on politics, Band 17, Heft 2, S. 591-593
ISSN: 1541-0986
The Battle for the Court: Interest Groups, Judicial Elections, and Public Policy
In: Political science quarterly: a nonpartisan journal devoted to the study and analysis of government, politics and international affairs ; PSQ, Band 133, Heft 4, S. 760-762
ISSN: 1538-165X
Attacking Judges: How Campaign Advertising Influences State Supreme Court Elections. By Melinda Gann Hall. Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press, 2015
In: The journal of politics: JOP, Band 78, Heft 4, S. E13-E14
ISSN: 1468-2508
Attacking Judges: How Campaign Advertising Influences State Supreme Court Elections. By Melinda Gann Hall. Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press, 2015
In: The journal of politics: JOP, Band 78, Heft 4, S. E13-E14
ISSN: 0022-3816
Are courts "different?" Experimental evidence on the unique costs of attacking courts
In: Research & politics: R&P, Band 10, Heft 3
ISSN: 2053-1680
U.S. courts have long been thought to be held in special regard by the American public, and public support is theorized to protect institutions from interbranch aggression. At the same time, recent research underscores that institutional fealty and public reaction to court curbing is shaped by partisan concerns. Drawing on a survey experiment fielded in the U.S., we evaluate whether (1) the public is uniquely punitive toward incumbents who seek to undermine a court rather than an agency and (2) the extent to which these penalties are dependent upon shared partisanship with the proposer. We demonstrate that the public is less supportive of efforts to strip judicial power than analogous efforts to strip power from an executive agency, but that this penalty for court curbing dissipates in the face of copartisanship. This substantiates previous claims regarding the role of partisanship on shaping public attitudes about high courts but underscores that the American public may still hold the courts in unique regard.
The Costs of Court Curbing: Evidence from the United States
In: The journal of politics: JOP, Band 85, Heft 2, S. 609-624
ISSN: 1468-2508
Judging prosecutors: Public support for prosecutorial discretion
In: Research & politics: R&P, Band 9, Heft 4, S. 205316802211349
ISSN: 2053-1680
Prosecutors have immense discretion to determine which offenses to charge, which cases to take to trial, and which sentences to recommend. Yet, even though many of the prosecutors who exercise this discretion over important crimes must face the electorate to keep their jobs, we know little about how the use of this discretion affects prosecutors' electoral fortunes. Drawing on two experiments embedded in a nationally representative survey, we demonstrate that the public is more supportive of prosecutors who issue lenient sentences for low-level crimes. The results have important implications for criminal justice reform inasmuch as they provide a linkage between progressive prosecutorial behavior and respondents' vote intentions.
The Economic Costs of Democratic Backsliding? Backsliding and State Location Preferences of US Job Seekers
In: The journal of politics: JOP, S. 000-000
ISSN: 1468-2508
Judging Judicial Review in the American States
In: State politics & policy quarterly: the official journal of the State Politics and Policy section of the American Political Science Association, Band 19, Heft 3, S. 287-311
ISSN: 1946-1607
Does the use of judicial review by unelected judges harm public support for their decisions? Scholars have often answered this question in the affirmative. We examine the extent to which the use of judicial review reduces the ability of judges to achieve acceptance of their decisions, arguing that decisions made by elected judges may be more palatable to the public. Our experimental evidence demonstrates that the public is less prone to accept both decisions made by appointed judges and judicial decisions that strike down laws. However, the public is no more likely to accept the use of judicial review by an appointed court than an elected court. The results have implications both for institutional design in the American states and the microfoundations of judicial independence.
New Evidence for a Positive Relationship between De Facto Judicial Independence and State Respect for Empowerment Rights
In: International studies quarterly: the journal of the International Studies Association, Band 61, Heft 1, S. 210-224
ISSN: 1468-2478
Ignorance or Opposition? Blank and Spoiled Votes in Low-Information, Highly Politicized Environments
In: Political research quarterly: PRQ ; official journal of the Western Political Science Association and other associations, Band 67, Heft 3, S. 547-561
ISSN: 1938-274X
Voters often make the effort to go to the polls but effectively throw their vote away by leaving their ballot blank or intentionally spoiled. Typically construed as anomalous or errant, we argue that blank and spoiled ballots are empirically differentiable and politically informative. We consider self-reported vote choice from a nationally representative survey following the 2011 Bolivian elections, in which 60 percent of votes cast were blank or spoiled. We estimate a multinomial logit model, finding that both blank and null voting were driven by political concerns, though null voting was more common among politically sophisticated individuals.
Ignorance or Opposition? Blank and Spoiled Votes in Low-Information, Highly Politicized Environments
In: Political research quarterly: PRQ ; official journal of Western Political Science Association, Pacific Northwest Political Science Association, Southern California Political Science Association, Northern California Political Science Association, Band 67, Heft 3, S. 547-561
ISSN: 1065-9129
The 2011 judicial elections in Bolivia
In: Electoral Studies, Band 31, Heft 3, S. 628-632
The 2011 judicial elections in Bolivia
In: Electoral studies: an international journal, Band 31, Heft 3, S. 628-633
ISSN: 0261-3794