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Some of the most recent work on the topic of divided government and judicial selection has focused on the use of delay as a tactic to defeating or frustrating presidential nominations to the federal courts. Less is known, however, about the actual policy outputs of judges selected under these conditions. In this paper, I analyze the career voting behavior of circuit court judges appointed by President Reagan and President Clinton and account for the level of senatorial opposition and whether the president confronts an opposition (party) chairperson of the Senate Judiciary Committee at the time of the judge's appointment. I found no support across both the Reagan and Clinton models for the hypothesis that these appointment factors will be reflected through the course of the circuit judge's career voting behavior and, thus, that they actually influence the types of judges ultimately appointed. |
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Name: American Political Science Association
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| Kaheny, Erin. "The Influence of Senatorial Opposition on the Career Voting Behavior of Circuit Court Judges" Paper presented at the annual meeting of the American Political Science Association, Boston Marriott Copley Place, Sheraton Boston & Hynes Convention Center, Boston, Massachusetts, Aug 28, 2002 <Not Available>. 2009-05-26 <http://www.allacademic.com/meta/p65936_index.html> |
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| Kaheny, E. B. , 2002-08-28 "The Influence of Senatorial Opposition on the Career Voting Behavior of Circuit Court Judges" Paper presented at the annual meeting of the American Political Science Association, Boston Marriott Copley Place, Sheraton Boston & Hynes Convention Center, Boston, Massachusetts Online <.PDF>. 2009-05-26 from http://www.allacademic.com/meta/p65936_index.html |
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Abstract: Some of the most recent work on the topic of divided government and judicial selection has focused on the use of delay as a tactic to defeating or frustrating presidential nominations to the federal courts. Less is known, however, about the actual policy outputs of judges selected under these conditions. In this paper, I analyze the career voting behavior of circuit court judges appointed by President Reagan and President Clinton and account for the level of senatorial opposition and whether the president confronts an opposition (party) chairperson of the Senate Judiciary Committee at the time of the judge's appointment. I found no support across both the Reagan and Clinton models for the hypothesis that these appointment factors will be reflected through the course of the circuit judge's career voting behavior and, thus, that they actually influence the types of judges ultimately appointed. |
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| THE INFLUENCEOF SENATORIAL OPPOSITION ONTHECAREERVOTINGBEHAVIOROF CIRCUIT COURT JUDGES Erin B. Kaheny Department of Government and International Studies University of South Carolina Columbia SC 29208 ekaheny@gwm.sc.edu Prepared for delivery at the annual meeting of the American Political Science Association Boston MA August 28September 1 2002. 2 THE INFLUENCEOF SENATORIAL OPPOSITION ONTHECAREERVOTINGBEHAVIOROF CIRCUIT COURT JUDGES While scholars have investigated the impact of divided government on policy making in the legislative arena (e.g. Mayhew 1991 Sundquist 1992) few scholars have extended their |
| Law Journal 47(Spring): 527582. 13 TABLE 1 A MODELOFCAREERLIBERALISM FOR CIRCUIT JUDGES APPOINTEDBY PRESIDENT REAGAN Variable OLS Coefficient Standard Error Opposition Senate 0.019 0.039 Biden 0.176 0.326 Northeast/Great Lakes 0.091* 0.030 Great Plains/Rocky Mtn. 0.015 0.040 Northwest 0.071 0.045 Intercept 1.186 1.825 Number of Observations = 78 F= 2.12 Pr > F=0.0721 RSquare = 0.1286 *significant at .01 onetailed test 14 TABLE 2 A MODELOFCAREERLIBERALISM FOR CIRCUIT JUDGES APPOINTED BY PRESIDENT CLINTON Variable OLS Coefficient Standard Error Opposition Senate |
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