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Endogenous Jurisprudential Regimes
(2012-09-03)
Jurisprudential regime theory is a legal explanation of decision-making on the U.S. Supreme Court that asserts that a key precedent in an area of law fundamentally restructures the relationship between case characteristics ...
Do Weberian Bureaucracies Lead to Markets or Vice Versa? A Coevolutionary Approach to Development
(Cambridge University Press, 2015-08-01)
Are Weberian bureaucracies a precondition for capitalist markets or is it the other way
around? According to the developmental school, state bureaucracies organized along
Weberian precepts is necessary for successful ...
Untangling the Causal Effects of Sex on Judging
(Wiley-Blackwell Publishing, Inc., 2010-04)
We explore the role of sex in judging by addressing two questions of long-standing interest to political scientists: whether and in what ways male and female judges decide cases distinctly—“individual effects”—and whether ...
The Execution of Judicial Discourse: A Positive Political Theory and Empirical Analysis of Strategic Word Choice in District Court Opinions
(2012-04-09)
Supported by numerous empirical studies on judicial hierarchies and panel effects,
Positive Political Theory (PPT) suggests that judges engage in strategic use of opinion content—to further the policy outcomes preferred ...
Who Controls the Content of Supreme Court Opinions?
(Wiley-Blackwell Publishing, Inc., 2012-04)
Conventional arguments identify either the median justice or the opinion author as the most influential justices in shaping the content of Supreme Court opinions. We develop a model of judicial decision making that suggests ...
Counting Cadres: A Comparative View of the Size of China’s Public Employment
(The China Quarterly, 2012-09-01)
Is China’s public bureaucracy overstaffed? To answer this basic question
objectively, one needs to define public employment in the contemporary
Chinese context; survey data sources available to measure public employment;
and ...
Learning Political Science with Prediction Markets: An Experimental Study
(Cambridge University Press, 2012-04)
Prediction markets are designed to aggregate the information of many individuals to forecast future events. These markets provide participants with an incentive to seek information and a forum for interaction, making markets ...
Authoritarian Restraints on Online Activism Revisited: Why "I-Paid-A-Bribe" Worked in India But Failed in China
(2014-10)
Authoritarian states restrain online activism not only through repression and censorship, but also by indirectly weakening the ability of netizens to self-govern and constructively engage the state. I demonstrate this ...
Co-optation & Clientelism: Nested Distributive Politics in China’s Single-Party Dictatorship
(2016-01-07)
What explains the persistent growth of public employment in reform-era
China despite repeated and forceful downsizing campaigns? Why do some provinces
retain more public employees and experience higher rates of bureaucratic ...