1992
DOI: 10.2307/2111356
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Integrating Alternative Approaches to the Study of Judicial Voting: Obscenity Cases in the U.S. Courts of Appeals

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“…This notion is supported by former Maine AG Jim Tierney: "In criminal procedure, AGs really file with their own philosophy in mind" (Tierney, email to the author, October 25, 2004). The notion that ideology influences legal decision making-a crucial component of the attitudinal model-has been used to explain the behavior of Supreme Court justices (Pritchett 1948;Rohde and Spaeth 1976;Segal and Spaeth 1993;2002), federal appellate court judges (Songer and Haire 1992), and district attorneys (Worden 1990). Given that most AGs are elected, it is logical to believe that their decision making will also be influenced by ideology.…”
Section: The Motivation To Participate As Amicus Curiaementioning
confidence: 99%
“…This notion is supported by former Maine AG Jim Tierney: "In criminal procedure, AGs really file with their own philosophy in mind" (Tierney, email to the author, October 25, 2004). The notion that ideology influences legal decision making-a crucial component of the attitudinal model-has been used to explain the behavior of Supreme Court justices (Pritchett 1948;Rohde and Spaeth 1976;Segal and Spaeth 1993;2002), federal appellate court judges (Songer and Haire 1992), and district attorneys (Worden 1990). Given that most AGs are elected, it is logical to believe that their decision making will also be influenced by ideology.…”
Section: The Motivation To Participate As Amicus Curiaementioning
confidence: 99%
“…6. Issues analyzed include administrative law (Cross and Tiller 1998;Miles and Sunstein 2006), affirmative action (Cameron and Cummings 2003), asylum law (Fis chman 2007;Law 2005), the death penalty (Songer and CrewsMeyer 2000), employment discrimination (Farhang and Wawro 2004), environmental law (Revesz 1997), obscenity (Songer and Haire 1992), and sex discrimination (Baldez, Epstein, and Martin 2006;Boyd, Epstein, and Martin 2010;Fis chman 2007;Gryski, Main, and Dixon 1986;Peresie 2005). Note that some of these articles examine decision making on state supreme courts.…”
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confidence: 99%
“…understanding decision making on the United States Courts of Appeals (e.g., Goldman 1966Goldman , 1975Songer and Haire 1992) and the United States District Courts Carp 1980, 1983;Ringquist and Emmert 1999; but see Rowland and Carp 1996) as well as state courts of last resort (e.g., Brace and Hall 1997;Hall and Brace 1996). There is also a small body of scholarship that supports the idea that the attitudinal model travels beyond the American context (e.g., Ostberg and Wetstein 2004).…”
Section: Designated District Court Judges and Theory Buildingmentioning
confidence: 99%