Eleanor Main

Biographic Data

ID4467153
NAMEEleanor Main
GIVEN NAMESEleanor
FAMILY NAMEMain
SIGNATUREMAIN E
AFFILIATIONSEmory University
ORCID0000-0002-9739-3167
VERIFIEDYes
TOTAL WORKS8
TOTAL CITATIONS62
WORKS AS AUTHOR8
WORKS AS EDITOR0
FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR1969
LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR1999
H-INDEX2

  • Teaching Ph.D. Students to Teach Political Science

    Open AccessH Gibbs Knotts, Eleanor C Main et al.ARTICLEPS Political Science & Politics1999Cited by: 1

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  • Ralph Bunche Summer Institute

    Open AccessTheresa Marchant-Shapiro, Jeffrey Ross et al.ARTICLEPS Political Science & Politics1992

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  • The American Political Science Association Policy and Procedures for Permission to Reprint Articles, 1992

    Open AccessTheresa Marchant-Shapiro, Jeffrey Ross et al.ARTICLEPS Political Science & Politics1992

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  • Models of State High Court Decision Making in Sex Discrimination Cases

    Gerard S Gryski, Eleanor C Main et al.ARTICLEThe Journal of Politics1986Cited by: 53References: 21

    This paper examines state high court decision making on sex discrimination cases for the period 1971-81. Using logistic regression, several policy models drawn from the comparative state policy and judicial behavior literatures are employed to predict court votes on sex discrimination appeals. The final model emphasizes the importance of policy type, selection system, court reputation, sex of the appellent, and the presence of at least one woman …

  • Social Backgrounds as Predictors of Votes On State Courts of Last Resort

    Gerard S Gryski, Eleanor C Main et al.ARTICLEThe Western Political Quarterly1986Cited by: 8References: 13

    HE VIABILITY of the social background approach as a means by which to explain judicial behavior has been an issue of considerable scholarly debate. The internal logic of the theory remains sound: shared social and political traits reflect similar socialization processes and life experiences, which in turn produce similar attitudes and ultimately behavior (votes). Several different kinds of criticisms of this approach have been levied. For one thi…

  • Choice Shifts and Extreme Behavior

    Eleanor C Main, Eleanor Main et al.ARTICLEThe Journal of Social Psychology1973

    Research on the group-induced choice shift has made two recent advances. First, there has been an initial indication that group-induced shifts may exist in real-world decision-making settings. And second, group discussion has been found to have a polarizing effect, moving members to take more extreme positions. The present research was designed to build upon these two recent advances. In a real-world natural experiment setting, the decisions of f…

  • Model Cities Workers' Perceptions of Clients

    Open AccessEleanor C Main, Eleanor Main et al.ARTICLEUrban Affairs Quarterly1972

  • Parents in Search of Community Influence in the Public Schools

    Open AccessBert E Swanson, Edith Cortin et al.ARTICLEEducation and Urban Society1969