Robert Pallitto
Biographic Data
| ID | 1529349 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Robert Pallitto |
| GIVEN NAMES | Robert |
| FAMILY NAME | Pallitto |
| SIGNATURE | PALLITTO R |
| AFFILIATIONS | Seton Hall University |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 13 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 5 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 13 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2005 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2019 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
The Sit-Ins
This excellent study of the civil rights movement focuses on the sit-ins of the early 1960s, an aspect of the larger movement with its own distinctive dynamic. That contribution is valuable enough, but Christopher W. Schmidt also enhances our understanding of how legal change is made. He highlights “popular constitutionalism”: the contributions to constitutional meaning that result from actors and events outside the legal system (p. 66). We are a…
Irresistible bargains
Agents in contemporary societies are faced continually with choices regarding engagement with technological artifacts. They can choose to engage or decline engagement after considering the costs and benefits in each case. However, certain aspects of the surveillance society may be irresistible in a number of ways, so that refusal to engage with them is not a realistic option. The proliferation of the Internet of Things (IoT), particularly as embe…
The Contemporary Presidency
With the increase in digitized content available, new presidential research avails itself to more quantitative analysis. More digitized resources from government agencies and private and university repositories allow presidential scholars access to a broader universe of content. Data for analysis include digitized documents, oral histories, and data sets. Presidential scholars and researchers have the option to collaborate with programmers, compu…
Technology, Tradeoffs, and Freedom as Depicted in Postmodern Fiction
The Power of Habeas Corpus in America
Torture and Impunity
Alfred W. McCoy notes that several times he has anticipated turning away from researching torture, but he has been drawn back to it repeatedly over the past two decades. After his 1999 study of torture practices in the Philippines (Policing America's Empire), McCoy produced his groundbreaking work A Question of Torture (2006). He has now followed that book with Torture and Impunity. For each volume, events compelled him to revisit questions of to…
The Politics of Prisoner Abuse
Journal Article The Politics of Prisoner Abuse: The United States and Enemy Prisoners After 9/11 by David P. Forsythe. Get access The Politics of Prisoner Abuse: The United States and Enemy Prisoners after 9/11 by David P. Forsythe. New York, Cambridge University Press, 2011. 334 pp. $29.99. Robert Pallitto Robert Pallitto Seton Hall University Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Political Science Quarterly, V…
Torture and State Violence in the United States
The Legacy of the Magna Carta in Recent Supreme Court Decisions on Detainees' Rights
The legacy of the Magna Carta is apparent in the Supreme Court's recent decisions regarding detainees' rights. Asked to evaluate strong claims of executive power, the Court has had occasion to consider the origin and scope of habeas corpus, which many scholars see as a product of the Magna Carta. The majority opinion in Boumediene v. Bush (2008) traced the history of the writ of habeas corpus back to the Magna Carta and relied on that lineage to …
The Public Secrets of Welfare
The discourses surrounding the abolition of the federal welfare system provide an excellent opportunity to investigate instances in which people cling to erroneous beliefs in the face of clear proof of error. Gendered and racialized stereotypes abound in public discourse about welfare, and it is tempting to assume that those stereotypes remain in play because alternative information is not available. This article shows that in a survey of editori…
On Global Order
Journal Article On Global Order: Power, Values, and the Constitution of International Society by Andrew Hurrell Get access On Global Order: Power, Values, and the Constitution of International Society by Andrew Hurrell. New York, Oxford University Press, 2007. 336 pp. Cloth, $95.00; paper, $35.00. Robert M. Pallitto Robert M. Pallitto Seton Hall University Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Political Science …
The Law
The administration of George W. Bush engages in the use of “extraordinary rendition,” the kidnapping of foreign citizens and the delivery of those citizens to third‐party jurisdictions. In at least one such rendition, a foreign national was kidnapped from U.S. soil and delivered to a foreign jurisdiction where he was tortured. These renditions are accomplished outside of treaties and courts and are solely the result of presidential fiat. The clai…
State Secrets and Executive Power
WILLIAM G. WEAVER is associate professor of political science at the University of Texas at El Paso. ROBERT M. PALLITTO is an assistant professor of political science at the University of Texas at El Paso
The Sit-Ins
This excellent study of the civil rights movement focuses on the sit-ins of the early 1960s, an aspect of the larger movement with its own distinctive dynamic. That contribution is valuable enough, but Christopher W. Schmidt also enhances our understanding of how legal change is made. He highlights “popular constitutionalism”: the contributions to constitutional meaning that result from actors and events outside the legal system (p. 66). We are a…
State Secrets and Executive Power
WILLIAM G. WEAVER is associate professor of political science at the University of Texas at El Paso. ROBERT M. PALLITTO is an assistant professor of political science at the University of Texas at El Paso
The Public Secrets of Welfare
The discourses surrounding the abolition of the federal welfare system provide an excellent opportunity to investigate instances in which people cling to erroneous beliefs in the face of clear proof of error. Gendered and racialized stereotypes abound in public discourse about welfare, and it is tempting to assume that those stereotypes remain in play because alternative information is not available. This article shows that in a survey of editori…
State Secrets and Executive Power
WILLIAM G. WEAVER is associate professor of political science at the University of Texas at El Paso. ROBERT M. PALLITTO is an assistant professor of political science at the University of Texas at El Paso
The Law
The administration of George W. Bush engages in the use of “extraordinary rendition,” the kidnapping of foreign citizens and the delivery of those citizens to third‐party jurisdictions. In at least one such rendition, a foreign national was kidnapped from U.S. soil and delivered to a foreign jurisdiction where he was tortured. These renditions are accomplished outside of treaties and courts and are solely the result of presidential fiat. The clai…
On Global Order
Journal Article On Global Order: Power, Values, and the Constitution of International Society by Andrew Hurrell Get access On Global Order: Power, Values, and the Constitution of International Society by Andrew Hurrell. New York, Oxford University Press, 2007. 336 pp. Cloth, $95.00; paper, $35.00. Robert M. Pallitto Robert M. Pallitto Seton Hall University Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Political Science …
The Legacy of the Magna Carta in Recent Supreme Court Decisions on Detainees' Rights
The legacy of the Magna Carta is apparent in the Supreme Court's recent decisions regarding detainees' rights. Asked to evaluate strong claims of executive power, the Court has had occasion to consider the origin and scope of habeas corpus, which many scholars see as a product of the Magna Carta. The majority opinion in Boumediene v. Bush (2008) traced the history of the writ of habeas corpus back to the Magna Carta and relied on that lineage to …
The Public Secrets of Welfare
The discourses surrounding the abolition of the federal welfare system provide an excellent opportunity to investigate instances in which people cling to erroneous beliefs in the face of clear proof of error. Gendered and racialized stereotypes abound in public discourse about welfare, and it is tempting to assume that those stereotypes remain in play because alternative information is not available. This article shows that in a survey of editori…
Torture and State Violence in the United States
The Politics of Prisoner Abuse
Journal Article The Politics of Prisoner Abuse: The United States and Enemy Prisoners After 9/11 by David P. Forsythe. Get access The Politics of Prisoner Abuse: The United States and Enemy Prisoners after 9/11 by David P. Forsythe. New York, Cambridge University Press, 2011. 334 pp. $29.99. Robert Pallitto Robert Pallitto Seton Hall University Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Political Science Quarterly, V…
Torture and Impunity
Alfred W. McCoy notes that several times he has anticipated turning away from researching torture, but he has been drawn back to it repeatedly over the past two decades. After his 1999 study of torture practices in the Philippines (Policing America's Empire), McCoy produced his groundbreaking work A Question of Torture (2006). He has now followed that book with Torture and Impunity. For each volume, events compelled him to revisit questions of to…
The Power of Habeas Corpus in America
Technology, Tradeoffs, and Freedom as Depicted in Postmodern Fiction
Irresistible bargains
Agents in contemporary societies are faced continually with choices regarding engagement with technological artifacts. They can choose to engage or decline engagement after considering the costs and benefits in each case. However, certain aspects of the surveillance society may be irresistible in a number of ways, so that refusal to engage with them is not a realistic option. The proliferation of the Internet of Things (IoT), particularly as embe…
The Contemporary Presidency
With the increase in digitized content available, new presidential research avails itself to more quantitative analysis. More digitized resources from government agencies and private and university repositories allow presidential scholars access to a broader universe of content. Data for analysis include digitized documents, oral histories, and data sets. Presidential scholars and researchers have the option to collaborate with programmers, compu…
The Sit-Ins
This excellent study of the civil rights movement focuses on the sit-ins of the early 1960s, an aspect of the larger movement with its own distinctive dynamic. That contribution is valuable enough, but Christopher W. Schmidt also enhances our understanding of how legal change is made. He highlights “popular constitutionalism”: the contributions to constitutional meaning that result from actors and events outside the legal system (p. 66). We are a…
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