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What It Is-What It Should Be: An Empirical Analysis Of The Effect Of Procedures And Substantive Arguments On Adjudicative Tribunal Resource Allocation Decisions, Lydia Christine Stewart Ferreira Jan 2013

What It Is-What It Should Be: An Empirical Analysis Of The Effect Of Procedures And Substantive Arguments On Adjudicative Tribunal Resource Allocation Decisions, Lydia Christine Stewart Ferreira

PhD Dissertations

Our current understanding of tribunal resource allocation decision-making is via judicial review of tribunal decisions and/or the capacity, independence and appointment process of tribunal members. This analysis of tribunals provides incomplete information. This qualitative five year case study, however, asked the three following questions: Research Question #1: Do procedures statistically affect the resource allocation decisions of the Board? If so, what elements of the procedures create this statistical effect? The author analyzed the quantitative research results relative to the A4R theory’s four procedural conditions of transparency and concluded that the A4R theory it was not ‘fine grain’ enough to identify …