Patrick Leslie
Dados Biográficos
| ID | 4277044 |
|---|---|
| NOME | Patrick Leslie |
| PRENOMES | Patrick |
| SOBRENOME | Leslie |
| ASSINATURA | LESLIE P |
| AFILIAÇÕES | Australian National University |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-9218-8981 |
| VERIFICADO | Sim |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 14 |
| TOTAL DE CITAÇÕES | 68 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 14 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 0 |
| PRIMEIRO ANO DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 2018 |
| ANO MAIS RECENTE DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 2026 |
| ÍNDICE H | 2 |
Ideology and Agenda Setting in the High Court of Australia
Does judicial ideology affect the process of agenda‐setting in the High Court of Australia? Applications for “special leave” to appeal are the primary method through which the High Court manages its caseload, analogous to certiorari at the U.S. Supreme Court. Acceptance rates are low (10%–15%) and the consequences of rejection for litigants are high, since the Court rules as the final court of appeal in all areas of Australian law, including cons…
Parliamentary Debate and Job Market Signaling in Westminster Systems
This article examines parliamentary speech as a job‐market signal in Westminster systems, where ministers are selected from the legislature under conditions of informational asymmetry. Building on signaling theory, it argues that party leaders use visible, effortful parliamentary activities—such as frequent speechmaking—as proxies for latent qualities like political aptitude and commitment. Using data from Australia, Canada, Ireland, and the UK, …
Measuring Descriptive Representation
Studies of descriptive representation typically use a percentage ‘gap’ or ‘ratio’ to measure under- or over-representation. I discuss this approach and its limitations before proposing an alternative: using measures of disproportionality to measure multigroup representation relative to population benchmarks. I then extend the approach to show how representation along one dimension of identity can be compared across demographic subgroups. I apply …
Lower Court Disagreements as Cues for Agenda Setting in the High Court of Australia
We extend cue theory to examine why and how dissent on the court below acts as a cue to apex courts in selecting the cases they hear. We posit that dissent on the court below is a cue to the apex court that the case involves complex legal issues. To test our predictions about how dissent on the court below affects the selection of cases and factors mediating and moderating this relationship, we use original data on 8,405 special leave application…
Policy success and failure in Australia
This paper introduces the seven articles in the symposium on policy success and failure together with a short introduction to the large literature on policy success and failure. The issue brings together an analysis of success and failure within seven discrete policy domains, including Indigenous policy; immigration; foreign policy; water; government roll‐outs; education; and foreign aid. Previous case studies have not looked as systematically at…
Legislators talk less about the future as they age
A global scale of economic left-right party positions
We examine the cross-national comparability of expert placements of political partieson the economic left-right dimension using a novel dataset combining data from Europe, Latin America, Australia, Israel, Canada, and the United States. Using anchoring vignettes and Bayesian Aldrich-McKelvey Scaling (BAM), we assess evidence of geographic and expert-level differential item functioning (DIF) in how experts interpret the left-right scale. We find s…
The parliamentary voting behaviour of ‘teal’ independent MPs
Institutional Design and the Predictability of Judicial Interruptions at Oral Argument
Examining oral argument in the Australian High Court and comparing to the U.S. Supreme Court, this article shows that institutional design drives judicial interruptive behavior. Many of the same individual- and case-level factors predict oral argument behavior. Notably, despite orthodoxy of the High Court as “apolitical,” ideology strongly predicts interruptions, just as in the United States. Yet, important divergent institutional design features…
Comparative Exceptionalism? Strategy and Ideology in the High Court of Australia
This Article provides a rare comprehensive empirical assessment of oral argument outside of the United States. Drawing on a novel dataset over twenty-six years (1995–2019), comprising nearly one million speech episodes at oral argument in Australia’s apex court, the High Court of Australia, we are able to compare patterns of judicial behavior found in the U.S. Supreme Court to a comparable Western liberal democracy with a long tradition of judici…
Judicial Ideology in the Absence of Rights
Research on judicial behavior has yet to systematically examine the extent to which ideology affects voting behavior outside of rights-based issues. This study explores the predictive effect of judicial ideology on judicial votes in a country without a bill of rights: Australia. We develop an ex ante measure of judicial ideology and use original data on every Australian High Court decision between 1995 and 2019 to test whether, and in which types…
Personal or political patronage? Judicial appointments and justice loyalty in the High Court of Australia
We examine whether Justices appointed to the High Court of Australia are more likely to find in favour of the Federal Government when the Prime Minister who appointed them is in office than when subsequent Prime Ministers are in office, over the period 1995 to 2019. We find evidence of a loyalty effect, even when subsequent Prime Ministers are of the same political party as the Prime Minister who appointed them. We distinguish between Justices ap…
Could rainfall have swung the result of the Brexit referendum
Ideology, Grandstanding, and Strategic Party Disloyalty in the British Parliament
Strong party discipline is a core feature of Westminster parliamentary systems. Parties typically compel members of Parliament (MPs) to support the party regardless of MPs' individual preferences. Rebellion, however, does occur. Using an original dataset of MP votes and speeches in the British House of Commons from 1992 to 2015, coupled with new estimations of MPs' ideological positions within their party, we find evidence that MPs use rebellion …
Ideology, Grandstanding, and Strategic Party Disloyalty in the British Parliament
Strong party discipline is a core feature of Westminster parliamentary systems. Parties typically compel members of Parliament (MPs) to support the party regardless of MPs' individual preferences. Rebellion, however, does occur. Using an original dataset of MP votes and speeches in the British House of Commons from 1992 to 2015, coupled with new estimations of MPs' ideological positions within their party, we find evidence that MPs use rebellion …
Could rainfall have swung the result of the Brexit referendum
Judicial Ideology in the Absence of Rights
Research on judicial behavior has yet to systematically examine the extent to which ideology affects voting behavior outside of rights-based issues. This study explores the predictive effect of judicial ideology on judicial votes in a country without a bill of rights: Australia. We develop an ex ante measure of judicial ideology and use original data on every Australian High Court decision between 1995 and 2019 to test whether, and in which types…
Policy success and failure in Australia
This paper introduces the seven articles in the symposium on policy success and failure together with a short introduction to the large literature on policy success and failure. The issue brings together an analysis of success and failure within seven discrete policy domains, including Indigenous policy; immigration; foreign policy; water; government roll‐outs; education; and foreign aid. Previous case studies have not looked as systematically at…
A global scale of economic left-right party positions
We examine the cross-national comparability of expert placements of political partieson the economic left-right dimension using a novel dataset combining data from Europe, Latin America, Australia, Israel, Canada, and the United States. Using anchoring vignettes and Bayesian Aldrich-McKelvey Scaling (BAM), we assess evidence of geographic and expert-level differential item functioning (DIF) in how experts interpret the left-right scale. We find s…
The parliamentary voting behaviour of ‘teal’ independent MPs
Personal or political patronage? Judicial appointments and justice loyalty in the High Court of Australia
We examine whether Justices appointed to the High Court of Australia are more likely to find in favour of the Federal Government when the Prime Minister who appointed them is in office than when subsequent Prime Ministers are in office, over the period 1995 to 2019. We find evidence of a loyalty effect, even when subsequent Prime Ministers are of the same political party as the Prime Minister who appointed them. We distinguish between Justices ap…
Could rainfall have swung the result of the Brexit referendum
Ideology, Grandstanding, and Strategic Party Disloyalty in the British Parliament
Strong party discipline is a core feature of Westminster parliamentary systems. Parties typically compel members of Parliament (MPs) to support the party regardless of MPs' individual preferences. Rebellion, however, does occur. Using an original dataset of MP votes and speeches in the British House of Commons from 1992 to 2015, coupled with new estimations of MPs' ideological positions within their party, we find evidence that MPs use rebellion …
Judicial Ideology in the Absence of Rights
Research on judicial behavior has yet to systematically examine the extent to which ideology affects voting behavior outside of rights-based issues. This study explores the predictive effect of judicial ideology on judicial votes in a country without a bill of rights: Australia. We develop an ex ante measure of judicial ideology and use original data on every Australian High Court decision between 1995 and 2019 to test whether, and in which types…
Personal or political patronage? Judicial appointments and justice loyalty in the High Court of Australia
We examine whether Justices appointed to the High Court of Australia are more likely to find in favour of the Federal Government when the Prime Minister who appointed them is in office than when subsequent Prime Ministers are in office, over the period 1995 to 2019. We find evidence of a loyalty effect, even when subsequent Prime Ministers are of the same political party as the Prime Minister who appointed them. We distinguish between Justices ap…
Comparative Exceptionalism? Strategy and Ideology in the High Court of Australia
This Article provides a rare comprehensive empirical assessment of oral argument outside of the United States. Drawing on a novel dataset over twenty-six years (1995–2019), comprising nearly one million speech episodes at oral argument in Australia’s apex court, the High Court of Australia, we are able to compare patterns of judicial behavior found in the U.S. Supreme Court to a comparable Western liberal democracy with a long tradition of judici…
Institutional Design and the Predictability of Judicial Interruptions at Oral Argument
Examining oral argument in the Australian High Court and comparing to the U.S. Supreme Court, this article shows that institutional design drives judicial interruptive behavior. Many of the same individual- and case-level factors predict oral argument behavior. Notably, despite orthodoxy of the High Court as “apolitical,” ideology strongly predicts interruptions, just as in the United States. Yet, important divergent institutional design features…
Policy success and failure in Australia
This paper introduces the seven articles in the symposium on policy success and failure together with a short introduction to the large literature on policy success and failure. The issue brings together an analysis of success and failure within seven discrete policy domains, including Indigenous policy; immigration; foreign policy; water; government roll‐outs; education; and foreign aid. Previous case studies have not looked as systematically at…
Legislators talk less about the future as they age
A global scale of economic left-right party positions
We examine the cross-national comparability of expert placements of political partieson the economic left-right dimension using a novel dataset combining data from Europe, Latin America, Australia, Israel, Canada, and the United States. Using anchoring vignettes and Bayesian Aldrich-McKelvey Scaling (BAM), we assess evidence of geographic and expert-level differential item functioning (DIF) in how experts interpret the left-right scale. We find s…
The parliamentary voting behaviour of ‘teal’ independent MPs
Ideology and Agenda Setting in the High Court of Australia
Does judicial ideology affect the process of agenda‐setting in the High Court of Australia? Applications for “special leave” to appeal are the primary method through which the High Court manages its caseload, analogous to certiorari at the U.S. Supreme Court. Acceptance rates are low (10%–15%) and the consequences of rejection for litigants are high, since the Court rules as the final court of appeal in all areas of Australian law, including cons…
Parliamentary Debate and Job Market Signaling in Westminster Systems
This article examines parliamentary speech as a job‐market signal in Westminster systems, where ministers are selected from the legislature under conditions of informational asymmetry. Building on signaling theory, it argues that party leaders use visible, effortful parliamentary activities—such as frequent speechmaking—as proxies for latent qualities like political aptitude and commitment. Using data from Australia, Canada, Ireland, and the UK, …
Measuring Descriptive Representation
Studies of descriptive representation typically use a percentage ‘gap’ or ‘ratio’ to measure under- or over-representation. I discuss this approach and its limitations before proposing an alternative: using measures of disproportionality to measure multigroup representation relative to population benchmarks. I then extend the approach to show how representation along one dimension of identity can be compared across demographic subgroups. I apply …
Lower Court Disagreements as Cues for Agenda Setting in the High Court of Australia
We extend cue theory to examine why and how dissent on the court below acts as a cue to apex courts in selecting the cases they hear. We posit that dissent on the court below is a cue to the apex court that the case involves complex legal issues. To test our predictions about how dissent on the court below affects the selection of cases and factors mediating and moderating this relationship, we use original data on 8,405 special leave application…
Political science (10 obras) · Politics (7 obras) · Judicial and Constitutional Studies (6 obras) · Law (6 obras) · Public Administration (5 obras) · Electoral Systems and Political Participation (4 obras) · Ideology (4 obras) · Law (4 obras) · Sociology (4 obras) · Commonwealth, Australian Politics and Federalism (3 obras)