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View article: Setting the Supreme Court’s Policy Agenda
Setting the Supreme Court’s Policy Agenda Open
We develop a new approach to understanding which legal questions the Supreme Court chooses to address. We show that the Supreme Court is more likely to resolve ideologically polarizing legal questions. This result is based on a new techniq…
View article: Replication Data for: Republican-Majority Appellate Panels Increase Execution Rates for Capital Defendants
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Replication Data for: Republican-Majority Appellate Panels Increase Execution Rates for Capital Defendants
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View article: Legal Uniformity in American Courts
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Intercircuit splits occur when two or more circuits on the U.S. Courts of Appeals issue different legal rules about the same legal question. When this happens, federal law is applied differently in different parts of the country. Intercirc…
View article: Judicial dissents from ideological allies in lower court cases are more likely to lead to en banc review.
Judicial dissents from ideological allies in lower court cases are more likely to lead to en banc review. Open
In the US Court of Appeals, a panel of judges can vote to rehear a case which had previously been heard by the court, a procedure known as en banc review. In new research, Deborah Beim and colleagues find that when a judge who is an ideolo…
View article: Signaling and Counter‐Signaling in the Judicial Hierarchy: An Empirical Analysis of <i>En Banc</i> Review
Signaling and Counter‐Signaling in the Judicial Hierarchy: An Empirical Analysis of <i>En Banc</i> Review Open
We leverage the institutional features of American courts to evaluate the importance of whistleblowers in hierarchical oversight. Drawing on a formal theory of signaling in the judicial hierarchy, we examine the role of whistleblowing diss…
View article: Replication Data for: Signaling and Counter-Signaling in the Judicial Hierarchy: An Empirical Analysis of En Banc Review
Replication Data for: Signaling and Counter-Signaling in the Judicial Hierarchy: An Empirical Analysis of En Banc Review Open
We leverage the institutional features of American courts to evaluate the importance of whistleblowers in hierarchical oversight. Drawing on a formal theory of signaling in the judicial hierarchy, we examine the role of whistleblowing diss…