Amy Coney Barrett is Not Enough: How Descriptive and Substantive Representation Shape Trust and Legitimacy of the Federal Courts

P Chen, A Savage - Political Research Quarterly, 2024 - journals.sagepub.com
Public trust and perceptions of institutional legitimacy are vital to the functioning of the
federal court system, and recent work challenges the long-standing belief that these …

The Changing Subfield of Comparative Politics and the Journal of Politics & Gender

AM Tripp - Politics & Gender, 2024 - cambridge.org
Much has changed since 2007–2010 when I co-edited the journal Politics & Gender (P&G)
with Kathleen Dolan. In this essay, I reflect on the changes in the journal and the subfield of …

Gender and public perceptions of judges who refuse to recuse

KS Canelo - Politics, Groups, and Identities, 2024 - Taylor & Francis
Recent high-profile investigations into the US judiciary have demonstrated that judges often
refuse to recuse themselves from cases where they hold a conflict of interest. Given women's …

Madame Justice Will Save Our Democracy: Gender Bias and Perceptions of the High Court in Transitional Regimes

C Shortell, ME Valdini - Political Research Quarterly, 2023 - journals.sagepub.com
While existing literature has established that women leaders are stereotyped as more likely
to uphold the norms of democracy, the power of this effect in the non-democratic context is …

Er geografisk representasjon i Høyesterett viktig? Holdninger blant befolkning og eliter i sentrum og periferien av Norge

JK Skiple, I Misje, G Grendstad - Norsk statsvitenskapelig tidsskrift, 2022 - idunn.no
Mens statens retningslinjer slår fast at høyesterettsdommere skal ha gode faglige
kvalifikasjoner, sier representasjonsteorien at dommerne bør speile befolkningen for å gi …