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The Supply and Demand Sides of Judicial Policy-making (Or, Why Be So Positive about the Judicialization of Politics?) [PDF]

open access: yes, 2002
A major reason that many people are intensely interested in who sits on the Supreme Court is that legal decisions can have great influence on the effectuation or frustration of political objectives.
Clayton, Cornell W.
core   +2 more sources

Stranger Rape or Impromptu Consensual Sex? Investigating Mock Juror Decision‐Making in a Genuine Contested Rape Trial

open access: yesBehavioral Sciences &the Law, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT The aim of this study was to better understand juror decision‐making in a less typical rape trial scenario where even prior acquaintance is disputed. Adopting an improved mock trial paradigm including a video‐recorded recreation of a genuine rape allegation and jury‐group deliberation, 156 jury‐eligible participants took part in 1 of 13 ...
Dominic Willmott, Rosie Woodhams
wiley   +1 more source

Comparing non-ipsative measures of party support [PDF]

open access: yes, 2011
Non-ipsative measures of party preference (preference ratings for each of the parties of a political system) have become common in election studies. They exist in different forms, such as thermometer ratings or feeling scores, likes and dislikes scores ...
Marsh, Michael, van der Eijk, Cees
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Unveiling Bias: The Impact of Male Rape Myths and Stereotypes on Juror Verdicts in Male‐on‐Male Rape Trials

open access: yesBehavioral Sciences &the Law, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This study examined how male rape myths, racial/ethnicity biases, and sexuality stereotypes influence verdicts in male‐on‐male rape trials—an area that is currently under‐researched. A sample of 463 participants read a mock rape trial, where both the defendant and complainant were male, with defendant ethnicity (White, Black, Asian) and ...
Lee J. Curley   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

Strategic Debt in Flemish municipalities [PDF]

open access: yes, 2009
This paper discusses the literature on strategic use of debt models and empirically tests the seminal models of Persson & Svensson (1989) and Alesina & Tabellini (1990) on a dataset of Flemish municipalities.
Goeminne, Stijn, Smolders, Carine
core   +1 more source

A “Two‐Pronged” Strategy Boosting the Activity and Stability of Nickel–Iron Catalysts Toward Anion Exchange Membrane Water Electrolysis

open access: yesCarbon Energy, EarlyView.
A “two‐pronged” strategy has been developed to construct a substrate‐strengthened, organophosphorus‐protected nickel‐iron electrode for efficient and robust OER electrocatalysis. Owing to the reinforced catalyst–substrate interaction and minimized active site loss by organophosphorus protection, the integrated electrode serves as an robust and ...
Yansong Zhou   +12 more
wiley   +1 more source

The political economy of public spending composition: evidence from a panel of OECD countries [PDF]

open access: yes
We evaluate the influence of political and institutional features in public spending and its functional composition, by focussing on political actors’ preferences, both opportunistic and partisan, as well as on institutional arrangements as political ...
Maria Manuel Pinho
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Gender differences in cooperative environments? Evidence from the U.S. Congress [PDF]

open access: yes, 2018
This paper uses data on bill sponsorship and cosponsorship in the U.S. House of Representatives to estimate gender differences in cooperative behavior.
Gagliarducci, Stefano   +1 more
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National Identity Meaning and Attitudes Toward War, Peace, and the Future of Ukraine

open access: yesConflict Resolution Quarterly, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT The link between attitudes and social identity is complex, influencing perceptions, motivations, and actions. Social psychological research mainly focused on the role of attitude in identity formation, particularly in the contexts of social movements and collective action.
Karina V. Korostelina   +6 more
wiley   +1 more source

Peculiarities of the influence of the electoral properties of candidates on voting behavior of voters

open access: yesВестник университета, 2019
The problem of impact resistant and variables of electoral properties of candidates for for voting behavior of voters. In particular, it is shown that all factors determining the voting behavior of voters are graded on a fi ed (internal), weakly ...
I. V. Groshev   +3 more
doaj   +1 more source

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