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 …

What motivates judges as decision makers? Political scientist Lawrence Baum offers a new
perspective on this crucial question, a perspective based on judges' interest in the approval …

This Note provides data to illuminate whether and how the presence of female judges on
three-judge federal appellate panels affects collegial decisionmaking in a subset of gender …

In this article, we consider whether personal relationships can affect the way that judges
decide cases. To do so, we leverage the natural experiment of a child's gender to identify the …

To say that positive political theory (PPT) scholarship on the hierarchy of justice is theory rich
and data poor is to make a rather uncontroversial claim. For over a decade now, scholars …

Pragmatism and its consequences are central issues in American politics today, yet scholars
rarely examine in detail the relationship between pragmatism and politics. In The Priority of …

This groundbreaking book analyzes the decisions made by the United States circuit courts
over the past half century. These courts have a profound impact on the law they issue many …

Back in the 1940s the political scientist C. Herman Pritchett began tallying the votes and
opinions of Supreme Court Justices. His goal was to use data to test the hypothesis that the …

Supreme Court Justices care more about the views of academics, journalists, and other
elites than they do about public opinion. This is true of nearly all Justices and is especially …

Propelled by the belief that government has slipped out of the hands of ordinary citizens, a
surging wave of populism is destabilizing democracies around the world. As John …