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The Independent Judiciary in an Interest-Group Perspective
Landes, William M. - 1975
We believe that at a deeper level the independent judiciary is not only consistent with, but essential to, the interest-group theory of government. Part I of this paper explains our theory of the independent judiciary. Part II discusses several implications of the theory, relating to...
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Black Lives Matter Protests, Social Distancing, and COVID-19
Dave, Dhaval M. - 2020
Sparked by the killing of George Floyd in police custody, the 2020 Black Lives Matter protests have brought a new wave of attention to the issue of inequality within criminal justice. However, many public health officials have warned that mass protests could lead to a reduction in social...
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The New Market for Federal Judicial Law Clerks
Avery, Christopher - 2007
In the past, judges have often hired applicants for judicial clerkships as early as the beginning of the second year of law school for positions commencing approximately two years down the road. In the new hiring regime for federal judicial law clerks, by contrast, judges are exhorted to follow...
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Judicial Fact Discretion
Gennaioli, Nicola - 2006
other aspects of trials. We identify two motivations for the exercise of such discretion: judicial policy preferences and …
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Judicial Lobbying : The Politics of Labor Law Constitutional Interpretation
Iaryczower, Matias - 2005
This paper links the theory of interest groups influence over the legislature with that of congressional control over the judiciary. The resulting framework reconciles the theoretical literature of lobbying with the negative available evidence on the impact of lobbying over legislative outcomes,...
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Union Success in Representation Elections : Why Does Unit Size Matter?
Farber, Henry S. - 1999
I establish four facts regarding the pattern of NLRB supervised representation election activity over the past 45 years …: 1) the quantity of election activity has fallen sharply and discontinuously since the mid-70's after increasing between … forty years. I develop a simple optimizing model of the union decision to hold a representation election that can account …
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Electoral Turnovers
Marx, Benjamin M.; Pons, Vincent; Rollet, Vincent - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2022
In most national elections, voters face a key choice between continuity and change. Electoral turnovers occur when the incumbent candidate or party fails to win reelection. To understand how turnovers affect national outcomes, we study the universe of presidential and parliamentary elections...
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Independent Regulators and Financial Stability : Evidence from Gubernatorial Campaigns and a Progressive Era Policy Experiment
Del Angel, Marco; Richardson, Gary - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2022
supervision. After this change, failure rates declined during gubernatorial election campaigns for banks under gubernatorial …
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Representation Failure
Iaryczower, Matias; Montero, Sergio; Kim, Galileu - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2022
Democratic representation is constrained by the alternatives available to voters. In this paper, we develop a methodology to gauge the extent to which the "supply side" of politics hinders voter welfare. Using rich data on thousands of candidates in three Brazilian legislative elections, we...
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Career Concerns and the Dynamics of Electoral Accountability
Iaryczower, Matiás; Meirowitz, Adam; Lopez-Moctezuma, … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2022
Quantifying the value that legislators give to reelection relative to policy is crucial to understanding electoral accountability. We estimate the preferences for office and policy of members of the US Senate, using a structural approach that exploits variation in polls, position-taking and...
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