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The Aggregate Dynamics of Lower Court Responses to the US Supreme Court 下级法院对美国最高法院的回应的总体动态
IF 1.4
Journal of Law and Courts Pub Date : 2019-08-21 DOI: 10.1086/703067
Ali S. Masood, Benjamin J. Kassow, Donald R. Songer
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引用次数: 7
The Structure of Legal Doctrine in a Judicial Hierarchy 司法等级制度下的法律学说结构
IF 1.4
Journal of Law and Courts Pub Date : 2019-08-08 DOI: 10.1086/703699
Claire B. Wofford
{"title":"The Structure of Legal Doctrine in a Judicial Hierarchy","authors":"Claire B. Wofford","doi":"10.1086/703699","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1086/703699","url":null,"abstract":"Political scientists interested in the structure of legal doctrine are especially attuned to the impact of the judicial hierarchy. They generally frame the issue as whether a higher court will issue a rigid “rule” to prevent shirking or a vague “standard” to give more discretion to lower courts. This “rules versus standards” debate rests on two presumptions: jurists write doctrine, and doctrine varies in flexibility. Using the US Supreme Court, I offer an initial empirical evaluation of these presumptions. The findings reveal that the justices almost always adopt doctrine suggested to them and that these doctrines differ little in flexibility.","PeriodicalId":44478,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Law and Courts","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":1.4,"publicationDate":"2019-08-08","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1086/703699","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"48211664","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}
引用次数: 14
The Maintenance of Institutional Legitimacy in Supreme Court Justices’ Public Rhetoric 最高法院法官公共修辞中制度合法性的维护
IF 1.4
Journal of Law and Courts Pub Date : 2019-07-31 DOI: 10.1086/703065
Colin Glennon, Logan Strother
{"title":"The Maintenance of Institutional Legitimacy in Supreme Court Justices’ Public Rhetoric","authors":"Colin Glennon, Logan Strother","doi":"10.1086/703065","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1086/703065","url":null,"abstract":"Judicial politics scholars routinely posit that the behavior of Supreme Court justices is motivated in important part by concerns of institutional maintenance, that is, by a desire to maintain the Court’s unusually large store of institutional legitimacy. Previous work on this topic, however, has focused almost exclusively on the influence of such motivation on judicial decision making. We contend that if institutional maintenance is an important goal, it should be observable in other contexts as well. We examine televised mass-media interviews with Supreme Court justices from 1998 to 2016 and find that legitimacy reinforcement is the predominant goal reflected in justices’ rhetoric in those interviews.","PeriodicalId":44478,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Law and Courts","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":1.4,"publicationDate":"2019-07-31","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1086/703065","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"46090298","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}
引用次数: 12
The Causes of the Legitimacy-Conferring and Republican Schoolmaster Capabilities of Courts 法院合法性授予的原因与共和国校长的能力
IF 1.4
Journal of Law and Courts Pub Date : 2019-07-19 DOI: 10.1086/702741
Benjamin Woodson
{"title":"The Causes of the Legitimacy-Conferring and Republican Schoolmaster Capabilities of Courts","authors":"Benjamin Woodson","doi":"10.1086/702741","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1086/702741","url":null,"abstract":"Some studies examining the effect of court decisions on public opinion examine their legitimacy-conferring role or ability to cause the public to accept specific policies. Others examine when courts act as a “republican schoolmaster” and change substantive policy attitudes. Using two studies, this article shows that these two effects are driven by different processes and caused by a different form of support. Legitimacy perceptions or diffuse support drives the process that causes people to accept specific policies. The process that changes a person’s substantive policy stance is driven by a person’s evaluation of the court’s previous policy decisions or specific support.","PeriodicalId":44478,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Law and Courts","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":1.4,"publicationDate":"2019-07-19","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1086/702741","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"41858627","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}
引用次数: 14
Courthouse Size and Its Impact on Judicial Performance 法院规模及其对司法绩效的影响
IF 1.4
Journal of Law and Courts Pub Date : 2019-07-18 DOI: 10.1086/702742
Sven Smith, Robert Askew, E. Lang, Justin Smith
{"title":"Courthouse Size and Its Impact on Judicial Performance","authors":"Sven Smith, Robert Askew, E. Lang, Justin Smith","doi":"10.1086/702742","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1086/702742","url":null,"abstract":"Sectors of the criminal justice system have bureaucratized to such an extent that their management has supplanted the values for which they were created. Weber predicted this phenomenon, arguing that substantive rationality would be replaced by formal rationality as organizations grew. We test the relationship between size and these two types of rationality with the use of judicial performance checks in arraignments created from conversations with administrative courthouse staff and pilot observations at courthouses. We measure judicial performance through arraignment checklists (n = 481). Findings from multilevel models suggest that there is a positive relationship between size and formal rationality and a negative relationship between size and substantive rationality, even when controlling for workload by research design. Results suggest that abundance of formal rationality or substantive rationality facilitates injustice. These results begin a discourse encouraging quantitatively measuring formal and substantive rationality and that size be considered regarding judicial administrative policy.","PeriodicalId":44478,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Law and Courts","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":1.4,"publicationDate":"2019-07-18","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1086/702742","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"45147188","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}
引用次数: 1
The Influence of Home-State Reputation and Public Opinion on Federal Circuit Court Judges 母州声誉和公众舆论对联邦巡回法院法官的影响
IF 1.4
Journal of Law and Courts Pub Date : 2019-07-12 DOI: 10.1086/703066
Ryan J. Owens, Patrick C. Wohlfarth
{"title":"The Influence of Home-State Reputation and Public Opinion on Federal Circuit Court Judges","authors":"Ryan J. Owens, Patrick C. Wohlfarth","doi":"10.1086/703066","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1086/703066","url":null,"abstract":"At least four observationally equivalent theories argue that federal judges follow public opinion when they decide cases. Yet there is mixed empirical support for these theories. Using recently released data on public opinion, we discover that state public opinion exerts a meaningful impact on the votes of federal circuit court judges. Perhaps more important, we leverage a number of different empirical approaches to identify which theory the data support. The data suggest that circuit court judges may change along with society but also that they follow public opinion because they care about their reputations in their home states.","PeriodicalId":44478,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Law and Courts","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":1.4,"publicationDate":"2019-07-12","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1086/703066","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"46787947","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}
引用次数: 1
Elections, Public Awareness, and the Efficacy of Constitutional Review 选举、公众意识和宪法审查的效力
IF 1.4
Journal of Law and Courts Pub Date : 2019-03-01 DOI: 10.1086/699241
Jay N. Krehbiel
{"title":"Elections, Public Awareness, and the Efficacy of Constitutional Review","authors":"Jay N. Krehbiel","doi":"10.1086/699241","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1086/699241","url":null,"abstract":"Scholars have long recognized the importance of timing in political decision making. In this article, I consider the potential for the strategic timing of court decisions involving the constitutional review of statutes. As courts lack the ability to directly implement their decisions, scholars have identified an attentive public as invaluable for judicial authority. Building on this literature, I argue that the proximity of a national election increases awareness and thereby creates an environment conducive to the assertive exercise of constitutional review. I then present evidence of the electoral cycle’s effect on decision making at the German Federal Constitutional Court.","PeriodicalId":44478,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Law and Courts","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":1.4,"publicationDate":"2019-03-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1086/699241","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"48946407","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}
引用次数: 10
Measuring the Issue Content of Supreme Court Opinions 衡量最高法院意见的发布内容
IF 1.4
Journal of Law and Courts Pub Date : 2019-03-01 DOI: 10.1086/701130
Douglas Rice
{"title":"Measuring the Issue Content of Supreme Court Opinions","authors":"Douglas Rice","doi":"10.1086/701130","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1086/701130","url":null,"abstract":"The opinions of the US Supreme Court are central to volumes of research on law, courts, and politics. To understand these complex and often-lengthy documents, scholars frequently rely on dichotomous indicators of opinion content. While sometimes appropriate, for many research settings this simplification of opinion content systematically omits important information. Using all US Supreme Court opinions from 1803 to 2010 in association with structural topic models, I instead demonstrate the value of representing the Court’s attention in opinions in terms of topic proportions.","PeriodicalId":44478,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Law and Courts","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":1.4,"publicationDate":"2019-03-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1086/701130","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"46162571","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}
引用次数: 10
Case Salience and the Influence of External Constraints on the Supreme Court 案例突出性与外部约束对最高法院的影响
IF 1.4
Journal of Law and Courts Pub Date : 2019-03-01 DOI: 10.1086/701274
Logan Strother
{"title":"Case Salience and the Influence of External Constraints on the Supreme Court","authors":"Logan Strother","doi":"10.1086/701274","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1086/701274","url":null,"abstract":"Recent scholarship suggests that Supreme Court decision making is significantly constrained by Congress and the public, often arguing that case salience is a key factor in the operation of these constraints. However, scholars have developed different theoretical expectations regarding the effects of case salience on justices and have found empirical support for mutually contradictory theories. Furthermore, these studies rely on an endogenous measure of case salience. I replicate two leading studies using a theoretically appropriate measure of case salience in order to shed new light on this important topic, finding evidence of constraint from the public in salient cases.","PeriodicalId":44478,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Law and Courts","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":1.4,"publicationDate":"2019-03-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1086/701274","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"45678229","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}
引用次数: 3
Packing the Courts: Ideological Proximity and Expansions to the Federal Judiciary from 1937 to 2012 挤满法院：1937年至2012年与联邦司法机构的意识形态接近和扩张
IF 1.4
Journal of Law and Courts Pub Date : 2019-03-01 DOI: 10.1086/697900
Elli Menounou, Adam D. Feldman, Thora Giallouri, J. Peterson
{"title":"Packing the Courts: Ideological Proximity and Expansions to the Federal Judiciary from 1937 to 2012","authors":"Elli Menounou, Adam D. Feldman, Thora Giallouri, J. Peterson","doi":"10.1086/697900","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1086/697900","url":null,"abstract":"What explains expansions to the federal judiciary? Whereas existing research focuses on unified government as an explanation, we argue ideological proximity between institutions involved in the expansion process more accurately predicts judicial expansions. We examine whether Congress chose to add seats to each federal district or circuit court annually from 1937 to 2012 and find expansions are more likely when (1) the ideological distance between chambers of Congress is smaller and (2) the ideological distance between Congress and individual district or circuit courts is greater. These findings suggest the administration of federal courts is influenced by the political concerns in another branch of government, raising important questions about judicial independence.","PeriodicalId":44478,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Law and Courts","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":1.4,"publicationDate":"2019-03-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1086/697900","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"43818477","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}
引用次数: 2
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