Description |
1 online resource : illustrations |
Series |
SAGE Research Methods. Cases |
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SAGE Research Methods. Cases
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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 |
Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
Notes |
Description based on XML content |
Subject |
District courts -- United States -- Case studies.
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Judicial process -- United States -- Case studies.
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Genre/Form |
Case studies.
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Case studies.
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Form |
Electronic book
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ISBN |
1526466643 |
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9781526466648 (ebook) |
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