Analyzing federal district court judicial decision making using content analysis, innovative variables, and logistic regression /
This case study outlines my approach to answering intriguing questions about lower level federal judges and the factors that influence their decision-making processes in contemporary cases involving civil rights and civil liberties. The lack of recent studies on U.S. District Courts and these topics...
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| Format: | eBook |
| Language: | English |
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London :
SAGE Publications Ltd,
2019.
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| Series: | SAGE Research Methods. Cases.
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| Online Access: | Connect to the full text of this electronic book |
| Summary: | This case study outlines my approach to answering intriguing questions about lower level federal judges and the factors that influence their decision-making processes in contemporary cases involving civil rights and civil liberties. The lack of recent studies on U.S. District Courts and these topics led me to create a new and unique data set using content analysis and innovative measures of particular variables of interest, including judicial ideology and state-level public opinion. I explain why I chose gay rights, abortion, and affirmative action cases for my data set, as well as how I found and coded all such cases decided between 1991 and 2012. I finish by describing how logistic regression and predicted probabilities helped showcase my interesting findings and make them accessible to all readers, including academics, legal practitioners, parties, and advocates. |
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource : illustrations. |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| ISBN: | 9781526466648 1526466643 |