High Courts and Economic Governance in Argentina and Brazil analyzes how high courts
and elected leaders in Latin America interacted over neoliberal restructuring, one of the …

It has become de rigueur for leading law schools to profess great enthusiasm for both
interdisciplinary and empirical research. Yet not all work in this vein has been warmly …

This paper develops a consensus voting model for estimating preferences of federal circuit
court judges. Unlike standard ideal point models, which assume that judges vote sincerely …

Policy-sensitive models of judicial behaviour, whether attitudinal or strategic, have largely
passed Britain by. This article argues that this neglect has been benign, because …

Constitutional amendments in September 2010 restructured the Turkish Constitutional Court
(TCC) by imposing term limits, adding six additional seats to the Court, and bolstering the …

This study examines decision making in Israel's Supreme Court regarding freedom of
religion, while implementing models of decision making that were researched in other high …

Scholars have long debated whether, and to what extent, law constrains judicial decisions.
Because law cannot be objectively measured, it is commonly believed that judicial decisions …

A key influence on governance and regulation is the ideology of individual decisionmakers.
However, certain branches of government–such as courts–while wielding wide ranging …

This paper presents an estimation of ideal points for the Justices of the Supreme Court of
Argentina for 1984–2007. The estimated ideal points allow us to focus on political cycles in …

According to attitudinal theorists, justices on the US Supreme Court decide cases largely on
political preferences that fall within one dimension of ideology. The focus of this study is to …