Lauren C Bell
Biographic Data
| ID | 4036896 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Lauren C Bell |
| GIVEN NAMES | Lauren C |
| FAMILY NAME | Bell |
| SIGNATURE | BELL L C |
| AFFILIATIONS | Randolph–Macon College |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-5557-1685 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 16 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 58 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 16 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2002 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
Generative AI and the Nationalization of US Politics
Artificial Intelligence (AI) was seemingly everywhere by the end of 2024, and the 2024 US presidential election was the first American national election to be conducted wholly in an AI era. Nevertheless, relatively little is known about how effectively generative AI contributes to learning about politics. This study explores that question in the context of research on subnational US politics. Based on a novel methodology that combines the analysi…
Assessing ChatGPT as a Tool for Research on US State and Territory Politics
Debates about the moral and ethical implications of using artificial intelligence (AI) abound. Yet, AI is swiftly being embedded into many aspects of society, becoming a key tool for sharing and gaining new knowledge. Benefitting from a systematic methodology that has led to the generation of profiles on all US states and territories in ChatGPT, as well as interviews with 17 experts on state-level politics, this article provides insights for thos…
The Court as Concert Hall: Music at the U.S. Supreme Court
The U.S. Supreme Court has for decades served as an unlikely venue for the performance of music. Between 1988 and 2020, more than 125 musicians, including some of the country's most prominent performers, appeared for intimate audiences in the Supreme Court's East Conference Room. The concerts were officially “off the record,” but details survive in records kept by the U.S. Supreme Court, papers of former justices and friends of the court involved…
Conclusion: What we Learned and the Path Forward
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Equal justice under law? Prosecutor demographics and the death penalty
Prior research has established that crime victims’ and defendants’ demographic traits affect the sentence that criminal defendants receive. In addition, previous studies have found that judges’ and juries’ biases affect the outcomes in criminal cases. Yet, despite significant scholarly attention to the effect of race and gender on criminal sentencing, no previous study has explored whether prosecutors’ demographic traits influence the outcome of …
The rise of the representative: Lawmakers and constituents in colonial America
The rise of the representative: lawmakers and constituents in colonial America." The Journal of Legislative Studies, 24(2), pp. 247–248
Obstruction in parliaments: A Cross-National Perspective
In legislative institutions, disruptions to the agenda and delays in processing legislation can have a significant impact on the ability of legislative majorities to realise success. Few previous studies have systematically examined parliamentary obstruction in non-U.S. settings. In this article, I investigate the extent to which obstruction occurs in parliaments around the world. The evidence, drawn from a 2016 survey of members of the Associati…
The Honours Year—A Reflection on the Experience from Four Former Students
An honours year is an introduction to new relationships with supervisors, fellow students, research participants and, importantly, yourself. This paper is based upon the experiences of four former Australian honours students who felt there was a distinct lack of guidance for first-time researchers in the available academic literature. In this paper, we explore the research experiences, processes and relationships that characterize the honours yea…
Courting Success: The Supreme Court Fellows Program at 35
In 1973, then-Chief Justice Warren Burger, at the suggestion of his administrative assistant, Mark Cannon, created the Judicial Fellows Program to allow scholars to engage in “challenging work for a year” at the Supreme Court and other federal judicial agencies (Tobias 1996, 510). The program is designed to attract, in Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg's words, “bright-minded, caring, uncommonly fine humans, people who remain ... in permanent fellowshi…
The Foreign Policy Disconnect: What Americans Want from Our Leaders but Don't Get by Benjamin I. Page and Marshall M. Bouton
Journal Article The Foreign Policy Disconnect: What Americans Want from Our Leaders but Don't Get by Benjamin I. Page and Marshall M. Bouton Get access The Foreign Policy Disconnect: What AmericansWant from Our Leaders but Don’t Getby Benjamin I. Pageand Marshall M. Bouton. Chicago, IL, University of Chicago Press, 2006. 223pp. Cloth, $50.00; paper, $20.00. Lauren Cohen Bell Lauren Cohen Bell Randolph-Macon College Search for other works by this …
Following the leaders or leading the followers? the US president's relations with congress
Unlike parliamentary systems, the head of government in the United States – the president – possesses few leadership tools that permit him to lead the national legislature. This is not an accidental situation, but instead a carefully balanced system of power sharing devised by the framers of the US Constitution and maintained over the course of American history. Nonetheless, the president is capable of exercising very limited leadership in two ar…
Rational Behavior or the Norm of Cooperation? Filibustering Among Retiring Senators
This paper contributes to the growing empirical literature on filibusters by examining the factors that are associated with individual-level filibustering behavior. We focus particularly on the behavior of senators in the latter part of their careers, using impending retirement as analytical leverage to determine whether decisions to engage or not in dilatory parliamentary practices are driven more by narrowly drawn considerations of instrumental…
From Passive to Active Representation: The Case of Women Congressional Staff
Missing from most studies of congressional staff is the insight gained from the representative bureaucracy literature that descriptive characteristics may affect the behavior of unelected bureaucrats. In considering congressional representation as an activity mediated by staff, we ask: Does descriptive representation of congressional committee staff lead to substantive representation? We explore this question, using gender as our descriptive char…
From Passive to Active Representation: The Case of Women Congressional Staff
Missing from most studies of congressional staff is the insight gained from the representative bureaucracy literature that descriptive characteristics may affect the behavior of unelected bureaucrats. In considering congressional representation as an activity mediated by staff, we ask: Does descriptive representation of congressional committee staff lead to substantive representation? We explore this question, using gender as our descriptive char…
Senatorial Discourtesy: The Senate's Use of Delay to Shape the Federal Judiciary
Senatorial Discourtesy: The Senate's Use of Delay to Shape the Federal Judiciary
Legislators have long recognized that delaying tactics are powerful tools for preventing the passage of laws they deem unsatisfactory. Because the U.S. Congress has several deadlines built into its session, when committee chairmen or individual members delay the scheduling of hearings, markups, or executive business meetings, it can have a devastating effect on pending legislation. The tactic of delay is now being used by the Senate Judiciary Com…
Senatorial Discourtesy: The Senate's Use of Delay to Shape the Federal Judiciary
Legislators have long recognized that delaying tactics are powerful tools for preventing the passage of laws they deem unsatisfactory. Because the U.S. Congress has several deadlines built into its session, when committee chairmen or individual members delay the scheduling of hearings, markups, or executive business meetings, it can have a devastating effect on pending legislation. The tactic of delay is now being used by the Senate Judiciary Com…
Obstruction in parliaments: A Cross-National Perspective
In legislative institutions, disruptions to the agenda and delays in processing legislation can have a significant impact on the ability of legislative majorities to realise success. Few previous studies have systematically examined parliamentary obstruction in non-U.S. settings. In this article, I investigate the extent to which obstruction occurs in parliaments around the world. The evidence, drawn from a 2016 survey of members of the Associati…
Rational Behavior or the Norm of Cooperation? Filibustering Among Retiring Senators
This paper contributes to the growing empirical literature on filibusters by examining the factors that are associated with individual-level filibustering behavior. We focus particularly on the behavior of senators in the latter part of their careers, using impending retirement as analytical leverage to determine whether decisions to engage or not in dilatory parliamentary practices are driven more by narrowly drawn considerations of instrumental…
Equal justice under law? Prosecutor demographics and the death penalty
Prior research has established that crime victims’ and defendants’ demographic traits affect the sentence that criminal defendants receive. In addition, previous studies have found that judges’ and juries’ biases affect the outcomes in criminal cases. Yet, despite significant scholarly attention to the effect of race and gender on criminal sentencing, no previous study has explored whether prosecutors’ demographic traits influence the outcome of …
Senatorial Discourtesy: The Senate's Use of Delay to Shape the Federal Judiciary
Senatorial Discourtesy: The Senate's Use of Delay to Shape the Federal Judiciary
Legislators have long recognized that delaying tactics are powerful tools for preventing the passage of laws they deem unsatisfactory. Because the U.S. Congress has several deadlines built into its session, when committee chairmen or individual members delay the scheduling of hearings, markups, or executive business meetings, it can have a devastating effect on pending legislation. The tactic of delay is now being used by the Senate Judiciary Com…
From Passive to Active Representation: The Case of Women Congressional Staff
Missing from most studies of congressional staff is the insight gained from the representative bureaucracy literature that descriptive characteristics may affect the behavior of unelected bureaucrats. In considering congressional representation as an activity mediated by staff, we ask: Does descriptive representation of congressional committee staff lead to substantive representation? We explore this question, using gender as our descriptive char…
From Passive to Active Representation: The Case of Women Congressional Staff
Missing from most studies of congressional staff is the insight gained from the representative bureaucracy literature that descriptive characteristics may affect the behavior of unelected bureaucrats. In considering congressional representation as an activity mediated by staff, we ask: Does descriptive representation of congressional committee staff lead to substantive representation? We explore this question, using gender as our descriptive char…
Following the leaders or leading the followers? the US president's relations with congress
Unlike parliamentary systems, the head of government in the United States – the president – possesses few leadership tools that permit him to lead the national legislature. This is not an accidental situation, but instead a carefully balanced system of power sharing devised by the framers of the US Constitution and maintained over the course of American history. Nonetheless, the president is capable of exercising very limited leadership in two ar…
Rational Behavior or the Norm of Cooperation? Filibustering Among Retiring Senators
This paper contributes to the growing empirical literature on filibusters by examining the factors that are associated with individual-level filibustering behavior. We focus particularly on the behavior of senators in the latter part of their careers, using impending retirement as analytical leverage to determine whether decisions to engage or not in dilatory parliamentary practices are driven more by narrowly drawn considerations of instrumental…
The Foreign Policy Disconnect: What Americans Want from Our Leaders but Don't Get by Benjamin I. Page and Marshall M. Bouton
Journal Article The Foreign Policy Disconnect: What Americans Want from Our Leaders but Don't Get by Benjamin I. Page and Marshall M. Bouton Get access The Foreign Policy Disconnect: What AmericansWant from Our Leaders but Don’t Getby Benjamin I. Pageand Marshall M. Bouton. Chicago, IL, University of Chicago Press, 2006. 223pp. Cloth, $50.00; paper, $20.00. Lauren Cohen Bell Lauren Cohen Bell Randolph-Macon College Search for other works by this …
Courting Success: The Supreme Court Fellows Program at 35
In 1973, then-Chief Justice Warren Burger, at the suggestion of his administrative assistant, Mark Cannon, created the Judicial Fellows Program to allow scholars to engage in “challenging work for a year” at the Supreme Court and other federal judicial agencies (Tobias 1996, 510). The program is designed to attract, in Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg's words, “bright-minded, caring, uncommonly fine humans, people who remain ... in permanent fellowshi…
The Honours Year—A Reflection on the Experience from Four Former Students
An honours year is an introduction to new relationships with supervisors, fellow students, research participants and, importantly, yourself. This paper is based upon the experiences of four former Australian honours students who felt there was a distinct lack of guidance for first-time researchers in the available academic literature. In this paper, we explore the research experiences, processes and relationships that characterize the honours yea…
The rise of the representative: Lawmakers and constituents in colonial America
The rise of the representative: lawmakers and constituents in colonial America." The Journal of Legislative Studies, 24(2), pp. 247–248
Obstruction in parliaments: A Cross-National Perspective
In legislative institutions, disruptions to the agenda and delays in processing legislation can have a significant impact on the ability of legislative majorities to realise success. Few previous studies have systematically examined parliamentary obstruction in non-U.S. settings. In this article, I investigate the extent to which obstruction occurs in parliaments around the world. The evidence, drawn from a 2016 survey of members of the Associati…
Conclusion: What we Learned and the Path Forward
An abstract is not available for this content so a preview has been provided. Please use the Get access link above for information on how to access this content
Equal justice under law? Prosecutor demographics and the death penalty
Prior research has established that crime victims’ and defendants’ demographic traits affect the sentence that criminal defendants receive. In addition, previous studies have found that judges’ and juries’ biases affect the outcomes in criminal cases. Yet, despite significant scholarly attention to the effect of race and gender on criminal sentencing, no previous study has explored whether prosecutors’ demographic traits influence the outcome of …
The Court as Concert Hall: Music at the U.S. Supreme Court
The U.S. Supreme Court has for decades served as an unlikely venue for the performance of music. Between 1988 and 2020, more than 125 musicians, including some of the country's most prominent performers, appeared for intimate audiences in the Supreme Court's East Conference Room. The concerts were officially “off the record,” but details survive in records kept by the U.S. Supreme Court, papers of former justices and friends of the court involved…
Assessing ChatGPT as a Tool for Research on US State and Territory Politics
Debates about the moral and ethical implications of using artificial intelligence (AI) abound. Yet, AI is swiftly being embedded into many aspects of society, becoming a key tool for sharing and gaining new knowledge. Benefitting from a systematic methodology that has led to the generation of profiles on all US states and territories in ChatGPT, as well as interviews with 17 experts on state-level politics, this article provides insights for thos…
Generative AI and the Nationalization of US Politics
Artificial Intelligence (AI) was seemingly everywhere by the end of 2024, and the 2024 US presidential election was the first American national election to be conducted wholly in an AI era. Nevertheless, relatively little is known about how effectively generative AI contributes to learning about politics. This study explores that question in the context of research on subnational US politics. Based on a novel methodology that combines the analysi…
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