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Case Visibility and the Electoral Connection in State Supreme Courts
American Politics Research, 2011Damon M Cann
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Does Local Journalism Stimulate Voter Participation in State Supreme Court Elections?
Journal of Law and Courts, 2020I gather new data on local media coverage of state supreme court elections and examine its effects on voter participation. I find that, even when controlling for campaign expense and advertising, media coverage can increase voter engagement in state ...
David A. Hughes
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The Supreme Court and the Supreme People
The Journal of Politics, 1954"No matter whether the Constitution follows the flag or not, the Supreme Court follows the election returns." So concluded the immortal Dooley after some observations about the Insular Cases in the course of which he also said of the Constitution that it wasn't likely to chase the flag anywhere, being more in the nature of a home-staying Constitution ...
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Judge Gender and the Voting Behavior of Justices on Two North American Supreme Courts
The Justice system journal, 2009While there have been a number of previous studies examining the similarities and differences in the voting behavior of male versus female judges, few have attempted cross-national comparisons. Since the early 1980s, the Supreme Courts of both the United
Susan W. Johnson, Donald R. Songer
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SSRN Electronic Journal, 2017
Over time, the Supreme Court of India has evolved from being a court of law to a major institutional actor in the political arena. The present chapter analyses this transition by directing external and internal lenses on the court’s functioning. The external lens reveals engagement by the Court with legislative and executive domains of governance, and ...
Madhav Khosla, Ananth Padmanabhan
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Over time, the Supreme Court of India has evolved from being a court of law to a major institutional actor in the political arena. The present chapter analyses this transition by directing external and internal lenses on the court’s functioning. The external lens reveals engagement by the Court with legislative and executive domains of governance, and ...
Madhav Khosla, Ananth Padmanabhan
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Vacancies on the Bench: Open-Seat Elections for State Supreme Courts
The Justice system journal, 2006This article examines the dynamics of state supreme court elections in which no incumbent is present; that is, open-seat contests. Although incumbent judges generally are able to win whenever they seek reelection, what factors affect elections when no ...
Chris W. Bonneau
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Gender and Judicial Replacement: The Case of US State Supreme Courts
Journal of Law and Courts, 2018Nancy B. Arrington
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Abstract This chapter critically evaluates the place of the Supreme Court in India’s democracy. This I do by examining three aspects of the higher judiciary in independent India. First, I briefly describe the history of the struggle between the judiciary on the one hand and the executive and the legislature on the other over custody of ...
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