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Principal-Agent Theory, Career Prospects, and U.S. Attorneys 委托代理理论，职业前景和美国律师
U.S. Attorneys, Political Control, and Career Ambition Pub Date : 2018-12-03 DOI: 10.1093/OSO/9780190928247.003.0003
Banks Miller, Brett Curry
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Political Responsiveness and Case Filings 政治响应和案件归档
U.S. Attorneys, Political Control, and Career Ambition Pub Date : 2018-12-03 DOI: 10.1093/OSO/9780190928247.003.0005
Banks Miller, Brett Curry
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Political Responsiveness and Career Prospects 政治反应和职业前景
U.S. Attorneys, Political Control, and Career Ambition Pub Date : 2018-12-03 DOI: 10.1093/oso/9780190928247.003.0007
Banks Miller, Brett Curry
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Three Case Studies in Political Control 政治控制的三个案例研究
U.S. Attorneys, Political Control, and Career Ambition Pub Date : 2018-12-03 DOI: 10.1093/OSO/9780190928247.003.0002
Banks Miller, Brett Curry
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Political Responsiveness and Sentence Length 政治反应和句子长度
U.S. Attorneys, Political Control, and Career Ambition Pub Date : 2018-12-03 DOI: 10.1093/OSO/9780190928247.003.0006
Banks Miller, Brett Curry
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Concluding Thoughts and Implications 结束语及启示
U.S. Attorneys, Political Control, and Career Ambition Pub Date : 2018-12-03 DOI: 10.1093/OSO/9780190928247.003.0008
Banks Miller, Brett Curry
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Describing the Data and Issue Areas 描述数据和问题领域
U.S. Attorneys, Political Control, and Career Ambition Pub Date : 2018-12-03 DOI: 10.1093/oso/9780190928247.003.0004
Banks Miller, Brett Curry
{"title":"Describing the Data and Issue Areas","authors":"Banks Miller, Brett Curry","doi":"10.1093/oso/9780190928247.003.0004","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780190928247.003.0004","url":null,"abstract":"This chapter thoroughly describes the data we use to test our hypotheses. Included in that description is a discussion of the five issue areas we study: immigration, narcotics, terrorism, weapons, and white-collar. The chapter considers the salience and complexity of these substantive areas and characterizes partisan preferences in each as they relate to case filings and sentence length. It also explores how trends in both filings and sentencing have changed over time and provides descriptive evidence about changes in the centralization of priorities across issue areas within the DOJ. Additionally, the chapter contains an overview of the post-service careers of U.S. Attorneys (USAs).","PeriodicalId":310563,"journal":{"name":"U.S. Attorneys, Political Control, and Career Ambition","volume":"26 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2018-12-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"124102355","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
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