Erin Crandall
Biographic Data
| ID | 4128448 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Erin Crandall |
| GIVEN NAMES | Erin |
| FAMILY NAME | Crandall |
| SIGNATURE | CRANDALL E |
| AFFILIATIONS | Acadia University |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-0912-2007 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 12 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 16 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 12 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2011 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
Negative Spotlight: Event-Driven Effects on Support for the Canadian Supreme Court
Longstanding public support for the Supreme Court of Canada is well-documented and contributes to its public legitimacy. However, the sources of this support and how vulnerable it may be to political factors or negative coverage of events are not well understood. In February of 2023, Justice Russell Brown took a leave of absence from the Supreme Court following a conduct complaint under review by the Canadian Judicial Council. Justice Brown retir…
The Canadian Charter’s Notwithstanding Clause as an Institutionalized Mechanism of Court Curbing
Recent interest in the use of section 33 of the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms has renewed political and scholarly attention to this unique device of constitutional politics. The notwithstanding clause is notable for being an opt-out clause exclusively available for government use, positioning it above the courts on key areas of rights. This article argues that the notwithstanding clause can be understood properly as an institutionalized…
Public Support for Canadian Courts: Understanding the Roles of Institutional Trust and Partisanship
Public support is a critical component of any court’s institutional legitimacy. Understanding the roots and durability of such support is therefore crucial. This article uses survey data to explore public attitudes towards Canadian courts from 2008 to 2019. This time period is especially relevant given the comparatively tumultuous relationship between the Supreme Court and the Conservative government of Prime Minister Stephen Harper (2006–2015). …
The Judicial Role in a Diverse Federation: Lessons from the Supreme Court of Canada, by Robert Schertzer
The study of court decisions addressing the division of power in federations is a well-trodden topic for legal and politics scholars alike. However, while such studies have produced a rich body of research on different courts’ federalism jurisprudence, there have been far fewer studies that have tackled this topic with the objective of engaging with broader theory and policy. By situating his study of the Supreme Court of Canada’s federalism juri…
Policy versus practice: Third party behaviour in Canadian elections
Third party campaigners are widely noted to have the power to change the landscape of an election. Yet, in Canada, we know little about whether there is consistency behind third parties' motivations, expectations and strategies, or how these motivations parse with those of the legislators who are attempting to regulate their behaviour. This article explores these factors using data from Canadian federal elections from 2004 to 2015. Merging qualit…
Judicial Discretion as Political Choice: The Supreme Court of Canada's Costs Awarding Power
This article analyzes an important discretionary power of the Supreme Court of Canada, the ability to award costs. With the use of an original data set, we explore trends in costs awarding in public interest litigation at the Supreme Court from 1970 to 2012. Our findings suggest that, over time, the Court has tended to favour nongovernment parties over government parties where the former are less likely to pay costs when they lose and more likely…
Comparing third party policy frameworks: Regulating third party electoral finance in Canada and the United Kingdom
Deciding how to regulate money during elections is a critical policy choice faced by every democracy. Over the last two decades, both the United Kingdom and Canada have implemented substantial revisions to their electoral laws, including policy measures designed to regulate third party spending. Despite similar policy objectives, the countries’ approaches to regulation differ, leaving the potential for significant variation in third party spendin…
The Politics of Judicial Appointment: Do Party Connections Impede the Appointment of Women to Canada's Federally Appointed Courts
The influence of party connection on the selection of judges has long been an issue in Canada This article considers whether such connections adversely affect the appointment of women judges to federally appointed courts. The answer appears to be yes. Using political donations as a proxy for party connection, the data analyzed here suggest that as the number of appointees with connections to the government rises, the number of women appointees fa…
Questioning Judges with a Questionable Process: An Analysis of Committee Appearances by Canadian Supreme Court Candidates
In 2006, the Canadian government introduced a new component to its process of selecting Supreme Court justices, a review committee composed of members of Parliament. Tasked with interviewing justices prior to their appointment to the bench, the committee met four times, interviewing only five of the eight judicial candidates appointed to the bench before the Conservative government announced the committee's termination in 2014. This study offers …
Does the System of Judicial Appointment Matter? Exploring Women’s Representation on Ontario’s Courts
Using an original dataset of appointments to Ontario’s provincial and superior courts from 1972 to 2012, this article explores whether the system of judicial appointment affects the representation of women on the bench. In addition to providing a comprehensive review of judicial appointments in Ontario, the article finds that since the introduction of new judicial appointments systems by the federal and Ontario governments in 1989, the provincial…
Committee performance in the Senate of Canada: Some sobering analysis for the chamber of ‘sober second thought’
While Senate reform is a continual topic of interest for partisans, academics, and the media in Canada, the nature of the Senate's legislative activity is less widely reported. That the Senate provides sober, well-researched political advice through its committee work is the refuge of ardent Senate defenders. However, what type of policy work do Senate committees accomplish and in what volume? This paper investigates Senate committees' policy rep…
Understanding third-party advertising: An analysis of the 2004, 2006 and 2008 Canadian elections
Understanding third-party advertising: An analysis of the 2004, 2006 and 2008 Canadian elections
Public Support for Canadian Courts: Understanding the Roles of Institutional Trust and Partisanship
Public support is a critical component of any court’s institutional legitimacy. Understanding the roots and durability of such support is therefore crucial. This article uses survey data to explore public attitudes towards Canadian courts from 2008 to 2019. This time period is especially relevant given the comparatively tumultuous relationship between the Supreme Court and the Conservative government of Prime Minister Stephen Harper (2006–2015). …
Questioning Judges with a Questionable Process: An Analysis of Committee Appearances by Canadian Supreme Court Candidates
In 2006, the Canadian government introduced a new component to its process of selecting Supreme Court justices, a review committee composed of members of Parliament. Tasked with interviewing justices prior to their appointment to the bench, the committee met four times, interviewing only five of the eight judicial candidates appointed to the bench before the Conservative government announced the committee's termination in 2014. This study offers …
Does the System of Judicial Appointment Matter? Exploring Women’s Representation on Ontario’s Courts
Using an original dataset of appointments to Ontario’s provincial and superior courts from 1972 to 2012, this article explores whether the system of judicial appointment affects the representation of women on the bench. In addition to providing a comprehensive review of judicial appointments in Ontario, the article finds that since the introduction of new judicial appointments systems by the federal and Ontario governments in 1989, the provincial…
Committee performance in the Senate of Canada: Some sobering analysis for the chamber of ‘sober second thought’
While Senate reform is a continual topic of interest for partisans, academics, and the media in Canada, the nature of the Senate's legislative activity is less widely reported. That the Senate provides sober, well-researched political advice through its committee work is the refuge of ardent Senate defenders. However, what type of policy work do Senate committees accomplish and in what volume? This paper investigates Senate committees' policy rep…
Understanding third-party advertising: An analysis of the 2004, 2006 and 2008 Canadian elections
Committee performance in the Senate of Canada: Some sobering analysis for the chamber of ‘sober second thought’
While Senate reform is a continual topic of interest for partisans, academics, and the media in Canada, the nature of the Senate's legislative activity is less widely reported. That the Senate provides sober, well-researched political advice through its committee work is the refuge of ardent Senate defenders. However, what type of policy work do Senate committees accomplish and in what volume? This paper investigates Senate committees' policy rep…
Does the System of Judicial Appointment Matter? Exploring Women’s Representation on Ontario’s Courts
Using an original dataset of appointments to Ontario’s provincial and superior courts from 1972 to 2012, this article explores whether the system of judicial appointment affects the representation of women on the bench. In addition to providing a comprehensive review of judicial appointments in Ontario, the article finds that since the introduction of new judicial appointments systems by the federal and Ontario governments in 1989, the provincial…
Questioning Judges with a Questionable Process: An Analysis of Committee Appearances by Canadian Supreme Court Candidates
In 2006, the Canadian government introduced a new component to its process of selecting Supreme Court justices, a review committee composed of members of Parliament. Tasked with interviewing justices prior to their appointment to the bench, the committee met four times, interviewing only five of the eight judicial candidates appointed to the bench before the Conservative government announced the committee's termination in 2014. This study offers …
The Politics of Judicial Appointment: Do Party Connections Impede the Appointment of Women to Canada's Federally Appointed Courts
The influence of party connection on the selection of judges has long been an issue in Canada This article considers whether such connections adversely affect the appointment of women judges to federally appointed courts. The answer appears to be yes. Using political donations as a proxy for party connection, the data analyzed here suggest that as the number of appointees with connections to the government rises, the number of women appointees fa…
The Judicial Role in a Diverse Federation: Lessons from the Supreme Court of Canada, by Robert Schertzer
The study of court decisions addressing the division of power in federations is a well-trodden topic for legal and politics scholars alike. However, while such studies have produced a rich body of research on different courts’ federalism jurisprudence, there have been far fewer studies that have tackled this topic with the objective of engaging with broader theory and policy. By situating his study of the Supreme Court of Canada’s federalism juri…
Policy versus practice: Third party behaviour in Canadian elections
Third party campaigners are widely noted to have the power to change the landscape of an election. Yet, in Canada, we know little about whether there is consistency behind third parties' motivations, expectations and strategies, or how these motivations parse with those of the legislators who are attempting to regulate their behaviour. This article explores these factors using data from Canadian federal elections from 2004 to 2015. Merging qualit…
Judicial Discretion as Political Choice: The Supreme Court of Canada's Costs Awarding Power
This article analyzes an important discretionary power of the Supreme Court of Canada, the ability to award costs. With the use of an original data set, we explore trends in costs awarding in public interest litigation at the Supreme Court from 1970 to 2012. Our findings suggest that, over time, the Court has tended to favour nongovernment parties over government parties where the former are less likely to pay costs when they lose and more likely…
Comparing third party policy frameworks: Regulating third party electoral finance in Canada and the United Kingdom
Deciding how to regulate money during elections is a critical policy choice faced by every democracy. Over the last two decades, both the United Kingdom and Canada have implemented substantial revisions to their electoral laws, including policy measures designed to regulate third party spending. Despite similar policy objectives, the countries’ approaches to regulation differ, leaving the potential for significant variation in third party spendin…
Public Support for Canadian Courts: Understanding the Roles of Institutional Trust and Partisanship
Public support is a critical component of any court’s institutional legitimacy. Understanding the roots and durability of such support is therefore crucial. This article uses survey data to explore public attitudes towards Canadian courts from 2008 to 2019. This time period is especially relevant given the comparatively tumultuous relationship between the Supreme Court and the Conservative government of Prime Minister Stephen Harper (2006–2015). …
The Canadian Charter’s Notwithstanding Clause as an Institutionalized Mechanism of Court Curbing
Recent interest in the use of section 33 of the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms has renewed political and scholarly attention to this unique device of constitutional politics. The notwithstanding clause is notable for being an opt-out clause exclusively available for government use, positioning it above the courts on key areas of rights. This article argues that the notwithstanding clause can be understood properly as an institutionalized…
Negative Spotlight: Event-Driven Effects on Support for the Canadian Supreme Court
Longstanding public support for the Supreme Court of Canada is well-documented and contributes to its public legitimacy. However, the sources of this support and how vulnerable it may be to political factors or negative coverage of events are not well understood. In February of 2023, Justice Russell Brown took a leave of absence from the Supreme Court following a conduct complaint under review by the Canadian Judicial Council. Justice Brown retir…
Law (12 works) · Political science (12 works) · Politics (11 works) · Judicial and Constitutional Studies (9 works) · Law (9 works) · Public Administration (6 works) · Supreme court (6 works) · Economics (5 works) · Electoral Systems and Political Participation (5 works) · Government (linguistics (5 works)