The goal of this study was to investigate prosecutorial discretion in the federal justice system by analyzing the correlates and consequences of charging decisions across U.S. District Courts.
Why do judges interpret statutes the way they do? Positivist analyses aimed at answering this question abound and, perhaps not so surprisingly, have supplied no shortage of responses. Some suggest tha
Using data from nearly 5,000 votes cast by more than 400 judges in courts of last resort from all fifty states, we investigate whether there is a relationship between a state’s judicial retention meth