Papers on lower federal court judicial selection and judicial behavior

Author/Creator:

Nash, Jonathan Remy, author

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Ann Arbor : ProQuest Dissertations & Theses, 2021

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Full Title:

Papers on lower federal court judicial selection and judicial behavior / Jonathan Remy Nash

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Clark, Thomas S., 1980-, degree supervisor
Emory University. Department of Political Science, degree granting institution

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Electronic dissertations
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Summary:

In contrast to the bulk of the existing political science literature on American judicial politics, the papers in this dissertation focus on the lower federal courts. The first looks at federal district court, and use as a natural experiment a time period during which New York federal district judges were appointed by Senators of both parties regardless of the party of the sitting President. It examines the nomination of federal district judges, and argues that the ideology of the Senator who recommends a nominee (i) does not predict the length of time until the nomination is resolved by the Senate, but (ii) has some effect on the likelihood of ultimate confirmation. The second paper looks at the appointment of magistrate judges by federal district courts, arguing that district courts will value expertise over ideological considerations. The paper presents a model of the appointment process, and offers empirical evidence consistent with the hypothesis.  The third paper examines decision-making by judges in groups. While many commentators and judges tout the importance of collegiality in decision-making, empirical validation of that hypothesis faces the challenge of measuring collegiality. The paper offers novel measures of collegiality based on expressions of collegiality by dissenting judges towards judges in the majority. The paper validates these dissent-based measures, and then uses the databases to gather empirical data on settings where judges tend to act collegially, and the characteristics of courts that tend to be collegial.  

Language:

English

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English

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1 electronic resource (205 pages)

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Source of abstract: Dissertations Abstracts International, Volume: 83-05, Section: B.
Advisors: Clark, Tom S. ; Committee members: Giles, Micheal W.; Staton, Jeffrey K.
Keywords: Judicial politics; Confirmation; Expertise; Ideology; Measures of collegiality

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9937407788502486

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9798492737894