Does the Law Matter? Federal District Court Decision-Making in Fair Housing Cases, 1968–89

King, Kimi Lynn

doi:10.1006/ssre.1998.0621

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“…We also use logistic regression, which is an appropriate tool to analyze nominal data in which, as here, dichotomous variables are linked into an integrated model in the context of judicial policy making (Yarnold 1997;King 1998;Ducat and Dudley 1989;Wybraniec and Finke 2001).…”

Section: Research Design and Datamentioning

confidence: 99%

“…However, other nonlegal variables are important, too. Research demonstrates that district court outcomes also are affected by variables linked to the broader political and social contexts in which they operate (Cooper 1988;Yarnold 1997;King 1998).…”

Section: The Legal and Democratic Subcultures For Trial Court Policy mentioning

confidence: 99%

“…This project is based on an integrated model of district court policy making that combines legal and extra-legal variables, and here we follow studies of U.S. Supreme Court and district court policy making that show the veracity and explanatory power of combining legal and nonlegal variables (George and Epstein 1992;Segal 1984;McGuire and Caldeira 1993;King 1998). We also use logistic regression, which is an appropriate tool to analyze nominal data in which, as here, dichotomous variables are linked into an integrated model in the context of judicial policy making (Yarnold 1997;King 1998;Ducat and Dudley 1989;Wybraniec and Finke 2001).…”

Section: Research Design and Datamentioning

confidence: 99%

“…Again, this measure is inelegant, but nonetheless results in meaningful analysis since it is done at the aggregate level as opposed to the individual level. In their study of federal district courts spanning more than 80 years of policy making, Rowland and Carp use the appointing president to demonstrate judicial ideology to good effect and note that "the appointees of Democratic presidents are clearly more liberal in their decision making than are judges chosen by Republican chief executives" (Rowland and Carp 1996:46; see also Ducat and Dudley 1989;King 1998;Ashenfelter, Eisenberg, and Schwab 1995). For this study, each case is coded as 1 if decided by a Democrat judge; 0 if otherwise.…”

Section: Judicial Ideology or Partisanshipmentioning

confidence: 99%

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Federal District Court Decision Making in Public Forum and Religious Speech Cases, 1973–2001

Blakeman¹,

Greco²

2004

Scientific Study of Religion

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This article investigates federal district court decision making in First Amendment lawsuits concerning religious expression and public forums. As trial courts, district courts are the first to adjudicate claims concerning religious speech in public places and thus they determine whether a public forum is open to expression in general, as well as grant or deny access to that forum for a religious speaker. With a comprehensive database of all district court cases concerning religious expression and public forum doctrine, we use logistic regression to measure the significance of several legal and extra-legal variables in order to explain district court outcomes.

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Section: Research Design and Datamentioning

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Section: The Legal and Democratic Subcultures For Trial Court Policy mentioning

confidence: 99%