Katy J Harriger
Biographic Data
| ID | 3876993 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Katy J Harriger |
| GIVEN NAMES | Katy J |
| FAMILY NAME | Harriger |
| SIGNATURE | HARRIGER K J |
| AFFILIATIONS | Wake Forest University |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 16 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 6 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 16 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1993 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2022 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Deliberation, Cognitive Complexity, and Political Engagement
Young adults who had participated in a college program in which they learned to deliberate were compared with a matched sample from the same college who did not participate. Interview and survey responses to questions about citizenship and communication about politics were analyzed. Ten years after their graduation, the students who learned to deliberate during college had more complex conceptions of citizenship and its responsibilities compared …
The Law
This article summarizes the previous behavior of presidents subjected to independent counsel investigations, and compares President Donald Trump's behavior to theirs. It concludes that while Trump's behavior is part of a larger pattern of presidential use of various executive prerogatives to try to counteract independent counsels, it departs from that pattern in several distinct ways. I conclude that several developments in the broader political …
The 9/11 Terror Cases
The 9/11 Terror Cases: Constitutional Challenges in the War against Al Qaeda.." Congress & the Presidency, 43(3), pp. 413–414
In Defense of Cooper v. Aaron
In the debate about the legitimacy of judicial supremacy, Cooper v. Aaron , the Little Rock desegregation case, is identified by both sides as critical to their argument. Defenders insist that Cooper exemplifies the need for a final authority in matters constitutional. Critics argue that the Court was wrong as a matter of democratic theory or empirical reality. In this article I argue that while it is true as a matter of empirical reality that th…
American Politicians Confront the Court
Journal Article American Politicians Confront the Court: Opposition Politics and Changing Responses to Judicial Power by Stephen M. Engel Get access American Politicians Confront the Court: Opposition Politics and Changing Responses to Judicial Power by Stephen M. Engel. New York, Cambridge University Press, 2011. 408 pp. $32.99. Katy Harriger Katy Harriger Wake Forest University Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Sc…
Judicial Supremacy or Judicial Defense? The Supreme Court and the Separation of Powers
Journal Article Judicial Supremacy or Judicial Defense? The Supreme Court and the Separation of Powers Get access Katy J. Harriger Katy J. Harriger KATY J. HARRIGER is a professor of political science and chair of the department at Wake Forest University. She has published books and articles on the independent counsel and the separation of powers, and is the co-author, with Louis Fisher, of American Constitutional Law, 9th edition. Search for oth…
Political Science and the Work of Democracy
The study of democratic theory and democratic politics is at the core of the discipline of political science. Yet the very centrality of democracy to the discipline may be what makes it difficult to sort out whether political science is doing the work of democracy rather than simply the analysis of it. Political science’s origins were civic minded but it has evolved into a more professionalized observer of politics than a promoter or creator of d…
The Law
The tensions between law and politics in the federal administration of justice are long‐standing and rooted in the expectation that the Department of Justice acts as both a presidential policy agency and an impartial prosecutor of federal crime. The investigation and trial of I. Lewis Libby by a special counsel (2003‐7) and the scandal over the firing of U.S. attorneys by the George W. Bush administration (2006‐7) demonstrate the challenges faced…
The Law
The Clinton scandal led to new interest in the lone dissent of Justice Antonin Scalia in the Morrison v. Olson decision upholding the independent counsel statute. His claims that the arrangement was a grave threat to presidential power seemed prophetic in the midst of the scandal. But the outcome of the scandal points to the opposite conclusion. The independent counsel's powers are no match for the president's political powers to influence the me…
The Law
Cues and Miscues in the Constitutional Dialogue
This paper explores the process of constitutional dialogue through the consideration of anarea of case law—separation of powers—where the U. S. Supreme Court issued significant decisions in the 1980s and where there was much discussion among the Court's attentive listeners about the significance of the legal changes represented in the Court's opinions. The implications of the separation of powers cases were not well understood by “the interpretiv…
The Federalism Debate in the Transformation of Federal Habeas Corpus Law
Over the last several decades, the law governing access to federal habeas corpus review has undergone a fundamental transformation, moving from a Warren Court approach that focused on individual rights to a Rehnquist Court approach that emphasizes deference to state courts. The enduring constitutional debate about the federal system and the appropriate role of the federal courts in that system has been at the heart of this transformation. This es…
Separation of Powers and the Politics of Independent Counsels
As a part of its post-Watergate reform efforts, Congress created an independent counsel arrangement in the Ethics in Government Act of 1978. After Richard Nixon fired Watergate Special Prosecutor Archibald Cox in the October 1973 Saturday Night Massacre, Congress sought to limit executive branch control of such investigations by providing for judicial appointment of an independent special prosecutor in cases involving allegations of criminal wron…
Sociology
Donald O. Schoonmaker
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Independent Justice
The Law
This article summarizes the previous behavior of presidents subjected to independent counsel investigations, and compares President Donald Trump's behavior to theirs. It concludes that while Trump's behavior is part of a larger pattern of presidential use of various executive prerogatives to try to counteract independent counsels, it departs from that pattern in several distinct ways. I conclude that several developments in the broader political …
Judicial Supremacy or Judicial Defense? The Supreme Court and the Separation of Powers
Journal Article Judicial Supremacy or Judicial Defense? The Supreme Court and the Separation of Powers Get access Katy J. Harriger Katy J. Harriger KATY J. HARRIGER is a professor of political science and chair of the department at Wake Forest University. She has published books and articles on the independent counsel and the separation of powers, and is the co-author, with Louis Fisher, of American Constitutional Law, 9th edition. Search for oth…
The Law
The tensions between law and politics in the federal administration of justice are long‐standing and rooted in the expectation that the Department of Justice acts as both a presidential policy agency and an impartial prosecutor of federal crime. The investigation and trial of I. Lewis Libby by a special counsel (2003‐7) and the scandal over the firing of U.S. attorneys by the George W. Bush administration (2006‐7) demonstrate the challenges faced…
The Law
The Clinton scandal led to new interest in the lone dissent of Justice Antonin Scalia in the Morrison v. Olson decision upholding the independent counsel statute. His claims that the arrangement was a grave threat to presidential power seemed prophetic in the midst of the scandal. But the outcome of the scandal points to the opposite conclusion. The independent counsel's powers are no match for the president's political powers to influence the me…
The Federalism Debate in the Transformation of Federal Habeas Corpus Law
Over the last several decades, the law governing access to federal habeas corpus review has undergone a fundamental transformation, moving from a Warren Court approach that focused on individual rights to a Rehnquist Court approach that emphasizes deference to state courts. The enduring constitutional debate about the federal system and the appropriate role of the federal courts in that system has been at the heart of this transformation. This es…
Donald O. Schoonmaker
An abstract is not available for this content so a preview has been provided. As you have access to this content, a full PDF is available via the ‘Save PDF’ action button
Independent Justice
Separation of Powers and the Politics of Independent Counsels
As a part of its post-Watergate reform efforts, Congress created an independent counsel arrangement in the Ethics in Government Act of 1978. After Richard Nixon fired Watergate Special Prosecutor Archibald Cox in the October 1973 Saturday Night Massacre, Congress sought to limit executive branch control of such investigations by providing for judicial appointment of an independent special prosecutor in cases involving allegations of criminal wron…
Sociology
The Federalism Debate in the Transformation of Federal Habeas Corpus Law
Over the last several decades, the law governing access to federal habeas corpus review has undergone a fundamental transformation, moving from a Warren Court approach that focused on individual rights to a Rehnquist Court approach that emphasizes deference to state courts. The enduring constitutional debate about the federal system and the appropriate role of the federal courts in that system has been at the heart of this transformation. This es…
Cues and Miscues in the Constitutional Dialogue
This paper explores the process of constitutional dialogue through the consideration of anarea of case law—separation of powers—where the U. S. Supreme Court issued significant decisions in the 1980s and where there was much discussion among the Court's attentive listeners about the significance of the legal changes represented in the Court's opinions. The implications of the separation of powers cases were not well understood by “the interpretiv…
The Law
The Clinton scandal led to new interest in the lone dissent of Justice Antonin Scalia in the Morrison v. Olson decision upholding the independent counsel statute. His claims that the arrangement was a grave threat to presidential power seemed prophetic in the midst of the scandal. But the outcome of the scandal points to the opposite conclusion. The independent counsel's powers are no match for the president's political powers to influence the me…
The Law
The Law
The tensions between law and politics in the federal administration of justice are long‐standing and rooted in the expectation that the Department of Justice acts as both a presidential policy agency and an impartial prosecutor of federal crime. The investigation and trial of I. Lewis Libby by a special counsel (2003‐7) and the scandal over the firing of U.S. attorneys by the George W. Bush administration (2006‐7) demonstrate the challenges faced…
Political Science and the Work of Democracy
The study of democratic theory and democratic politics is at the core of the discipline of political science. Yet the very centrality of democracy to the discipline may be what makes it difficult to sort out whether political science is doing the work of democracy rather than simply the analysis of it. Political science’s origins were civic minded but it has evolved into a more professionalized observer of politics than a promoter or creator of d…
Judicial Supremacy or Judicial Defense? The Supreme Court and the Separation of Powers
Journal Article Judicial Supremacy or Judicial Defense? The Supreme Court and the Separation of Powers Get access Katy J. Harriger Katy J. Harriger KATY J. HARRIGER is a professor of political science and chair of the department at Wake Forest University. She has published books and articles on the independent counsel and the separation of powers, and is the co-author, with Louis Fisher, of American Constitutional Law, 9th edition. Search for oth…
American Politicians Confront the Court
Journal Article American Politicians Confront the Court: Opposition Politics and Changing Responses to Judicial Power by Stephen M. Engel Get access American Politicians Confront the Court: Opposition Politics and Changing Responses to Judicial Power by Stephen M. Engel. New York, Cambridge University Press, 2011. 408 pp. $32.99. Katy Harriger Katy Harriger Wake Forest University Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Sc…
The 9/11 Terror Cases
The 9/11 Terror Cases: Constitutional Challenges in the War against Al Qaeda.." Congress & the Presidency, 43(3), pp. 413–414
In Defense of Cooper v. Aaron
In the debate about the legitimacy of judicial supremacy, Cooper v. Aaron , the Little Rock desegregation case, is identified by both sides as critical to their argument. Defenders insist that Cooper exemplifies the need for a final authority in matters constitutional. Critics argue that the Court was wrong as a matter of democratic theory or empirical reality. In this article I argue that while it is true as a matter of empirical reality that th…
The Law
This article summarizes the previous behavior of presidents subjected to independent counsel investigations, and compares President Donald Trump's behavior to theirs. It concludes that while Trump's behavior is part of a larger pattern of presidential use of various executive prerogatives to try to counteract independent counsels, it departs from that pattern in several distinct ways. I conclude that several developments in the broader political …
Deliberation, Cognitive Complexity, and Political Engagement
Young adults who had participated in a college program in which they learned to deliberate were compared with a matched sample from the same college who did not participate. Interview and survey responses to questions about citizenship and communication about politics were analyzed. Ten years after their graduation, the students who learned to deliberate during college had more complex conceptions of citizenship and its responsibilities compared …
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