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[Review Of The Book: The Sovereign Citizen: Denaturalization And The Origins Of The American Republic By Patrick Weil], Jordan Barkalow
[Review Of The Book: The Sovereign Citizen: Denaturalization And The Origins Of The American Republic By Patrick Weil], Jordan Barkalow
Political Science Faculty Publications
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The Cost Of Going For The Gavel: Individual Candidate Spending In Intermediate Appellate Court Elections, Brian Frederick, Matthew J. Streb
The Cost Of Going For The Gavel: Individual Candidate Spending In Intermediate Appellate Court Elections, Brian Frederick, Matthew J. Streb
Political Science Faculty Publications
Substantial research in recent years has studied judicial campaign spending. Most of this research has concentrated on state supreme court elections. Less is known about candidate spending in lower-level judicial elections. Moreover, research has focused on the costs of campaigns with the race as the unit of analysis. This study probes patterns of spending by 470 candidates in all contested races for state immediate appellate court seats from 2000 to 2009. It makes the first comprehensive evaluation of the systematic factors that drive spending in lower-level judicial elections with the individual candidate as the unit of analysis. It explores several …
The People's Perspective On The Size Of The People's House, Brian Frederick
The People's Perspective On The Size Of The People's House, Brian Frederick
Political Science Faculty Publications
The quality of representation the citizenry receives from its political leaders is central to evaluating the character of any democratic institution. Moreover, the number of elected members that comprise an institution can be vital in determining whether citizens have access to and can influence the decisions of their representatives (Dahl and Tufte 1973). The United States House of Representatives has been frozen at 435 members for almost a century. This durability of this alignment is astonishing; in its first century of existence, the U.S. House experienced a virtually uninterrupted string of decennial increases in its membership. Despite the magnitude of …
Electoral Institutions, Ethnopolitical Cleavages, And Party Systems In Africa's Emerging Democracies, Shaheen Mozaffar, J. R. Scarritt, G. Galaich
Electoral Institutions, Ethnopolitical Cleavages, And Party Systems In Africa's Emerging Democracies, Shaheen Mozaffar, J. R. Scarritt, G. Galaich
Political Science Faculty Publications
Do electoral institutions and ethnopolitical cleavages shape the structure of party systems separately or jointly? We examine the independent, additive, and interactive effects on the number of electoral and legislative parties of two institutional variables (district magnitude and proximity of presidential and legislative elections), one intervening variable (effective number of presidential candidates), and two new measures of ethnopolitical cleavages based on constructivist specification of ethnopolitical groups (fragmentation and concentration). Ethnopolitical fragmentation independently reduces the number of parties but, interactively with ethnopolitical concentration, increases it. However, the additive and interactive combinations of both measures with electoral institutions explain the largest amount …
To Advise And Consent: The Senate And Lower Federal Court Nominations, 1977-1998, W. L. Martinek, Mark Kemper, S. R. Van Winkle
To Advise And Consent: The Senate And Lower Federal Court Nominations, 1977-1998, W. L. Martinek, Mark Kemper, S. R. Van Winkle
Political Science Faculty Publications
Using nominations to Article III district and appeals court judgeships, we test a model of senatorial treatment of presidential nominations to the lower federal bench, looking both at outcome (whether or not a nomination culminates in confirmation) and process (the length of time it takes the Senate to process a nomination). We find evidence that nominee quality matters, as does composition of the Judiciary Committee and pending judicial nominations. Contrary to charges made in the popular press, however, neither race nor gender makes a difference for ultimate success or failure of a nomination. Duration analysis reveals that race (though not …
Democracy In Divided Societies: Electoral Engineering For Conflict Management, Shaheen Mozaffar
Democracy In Divided Societies: Electoral Engineering For Conflict Management, Shaheen Mozaffar
Political Science Faculty Publications
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