Todd C. Peppers
Roanoke College
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Political Research Quarterly | 2001
Micheal W. Giles; Virginia A. Hettinger; Todd C. Peppers
The importance of lower federal courts in the policymaking process has stimulated extensive research programs focused on the process of selecting the judges of these courts and the factors influencing their decisions. The present study employs judicial decisionmaking in the U.S. Courts of Appeals as a window through which to reexamine the politics of selection to the lower courts. It differs from previous studies of selection in three ways. First, it takes advantage of recent innovations in measurement to go beyond reliance on political party as a measure of the preferences of actors in the selection process. Second, employing these new measures it examines the relative effects of the operation of policy and partisan agendas in the selection process. Third, a more complex model of selection is assessed than in most previous studies-one that expressly examines the role of senators and senatorial preferences in the selection process. The results clearly suggest that the politics of selection differ dramatically depending upon whether or not senatorial courtesy is in operation. The voting behavior of Courts of Appeals judges selected without senatorial courtesy is consistent with the operation of a presidential policy agenda. Among judges selected when senatorial courtesy is in play, the linkage between presidential preferences and judicial outcomes disappears.
Archive | 2006
Todd C. Peppers
American Journal of Political Science | 2007
Micheal W. Giles; Virginia A. Hettinger; Christopher Zorn; Todd C. Peppers
Depaul Law Review | 2014
Todd C. Peppers; Christopher Zorn
Archive | 2007
Todd C. Peppers; Christopher Zorn
Archive | 2012
Todd C. Peppers; Artemus Ward
Albany law review | 2008
Todd C. Peppers; Micheal W. Giles; Bridget Tainer-Parkins
Archive | 2009
Todd C. Peppers; Laura Trevvett Anderson
Marquette Law Review | 2014
Chad M. Oldfather; Todd C. Peppers
Marquette Law Review | 2011
Chad M. Oldfather; Todd C. Peppers