Essays on judicial selection and judicial behavior
Abstract/Contents
- Abstract
- The last twenty years of research on judicial selection have produced three primary lines of research. The oldest of this scholarship examines how and when electoral pressures influence judicial behavior. Subsequent work expanded the focus to the four primary types of selection methods and considers how these processes may affect outcomes in certain case areas (e.g., abortion or capital punishment). Finally, recent work has zoomed out to the level of ideology and considers whether a given selection method produces particularly liberal or conservative judges. While each branch of the literature has produced high quality work, they also leave much to be explored. My dissertation addresses unanswered questions within these research traditions. The first paper examines the relationship between selection methods and ideological extremity; the second considers whether particular selection methods are associated with polarization; and the third addresses whether partisan elections produce cross-party behavioral convergence in death penalty cases. Collectively, these three projects deepen our understanding of the consequences of selection method choice.
Description
| Type of resource | text |
|---|---|
| Form | electronic resource; remote; computer; online resource |
| Extent | 1 online resource. |
| Place | California |
| Place | [Stanford, California] |
| Publisher | [Stanford University] |
| Copyright date | 2023; ©2023 |
| Publication date | 2023; 2023 |
| Issuance | monographic |
| Language | English |
Creators/Contributors
| Author | Parker, Brett Oliver |
|---|---|
| Degree supervisor | Bonica, Adam |
| Degree supervisor | Brady, David W |
| Thesis advisor | Bonica, Adam |
| Thesis advisor | Brady, David W |
| Thesis advisor | Cain, Bruce E |
| Thesis advisor | Fiorina, Morris P |
| Thesis advisor | Iyengar, Shanto |
| Degree committee member | Cain, Bruce E |
| Degree committee member | Fiorina, Morris P |
| Degree committee member | Iyengar, Shanto |
| Associated with | Stanford University, School of Humanities and Sciences |
| Associated with | Stanford University, Department of Political Science |
Subjects
| Genre | Theses |
|---|---|
| Genre | Text |
Bibliographic information
| Statement of responsibility | Brett Parker. |
|---|---|
| Note | Submitted to the Department of Political Science. |
| Thesis | Thesis Ph.D. Stanford University 2023. |
| Location | https://purl.stanford.edu/rw208tt0343 |
Access conditions
- Copyright
- © 2023 by Brett Oliver Parker
- License
- This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution Non Commercial 3.0 Unported license (CC BY-NC).
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