F Andrew Hanssen
Biographic Data
| ID | 5637928 |
|---|---|
| NAME | F Andrew Hanssen |
| GIVEN NAMES | F Andrew |
| FAMILY NAME | Hanssen |
| SIGNATURE | HANSSEN F A |
| AFFILIATIONS | Montana State University |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 5 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 11 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 5 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2001 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
The emergence of democratic constitutions
Democracy has flourished twice in human history: first in ancient Greece and then, more than two millennia later, in the modern world. Although the historical record regarding most Greek poleis (city-states) is scant, there nevertheless exists sufficient information to categorize the constitutions of nearly 200 of the more than 1000 poleis that once existed. Using similar data from the modern world, we compare two centuries of ancient data to two…
Courts, legislatures, and evolving property rules
Path dependence and transitions from tyranny to democracy
On the Politics of Judicial Selection
A Test of the Racial Contact Hypothesis from a Natural Experiment
Objective . The contact hypothesis is difficult to test because of selectivity bias: the direction of causation between contact and attitudes cannot be definitively determined. Selectivity bias can be avoided given a sample for which, for reasons unrelated to group member attitudes, whites divide into groups that differ systematically in the amount of contact they have with blacks. This paper uses a natural experiment that provides such a test: A…
A Test of the Racial Contact Hypothesis from a Natural Experiment
Objective . The contact hypothesis is difficult to test because of selectivity bias: the direction of causation between contact and attitudes cannot be definitively determined. Selectivity bias can be avoided given a sample for which, for reasons unrelated to group member attitudes, whites divide into groups that differ systematically in the amount of contact they have with blacks. This paper uses a natural experiment that provides such a test: A…
Path dependence and transitions from tyranny to democracy
On the Politics of Judicial Selection
The emergence of democratic constitutions
Democracy has flourished twice in human history: first in ancient Greece and then, more than two millennia later, in the modern world. Although the historical record regarding most Greek poleis (city-states) is scant, there nevertheless exists sufficient information to categorize the constitutions of nearly 200 of the more than 1000 poleis that once existed. Using similar data from the modern world, we compare two centuries of ancient data to two…
Courts, legislatures, and evolving property rules
A Test of the Racial Contact Hypothesis from a Natural Experiment
Objective . The contact hypothesis is difficult to test because of selectivity bias: the direction of causation between contact and attitudes cannot be definitively determined. Selectivity bias can be avoided given a sample for which, for reasons unrelated to group member attitudes, whites divide into groups that differ systematically in the amount of contact they have with blacks. This paper uses a natural experiment that provides such a test: A…
On the Politics of Judicial Selection
Path dependence and transitions from tyranny to democracy
Courts, legislatures, and evolving property rules
The emergence of democratic constitutions
Democracy has flourished twice in human history: first in ancient Greece and then, more than two millennia later, in the modern world. Although the historical record regarding most Greek poleis (city-states) is scant, there nevertheless exists sufficient information to categorize the constitutions of nearly 200 of the more than 1000 poleis that once existed. Using similar data from the modern world, we compare two centuries of ancient data to two…
Law (5 works) · Political science (5 works) · Law (3 works) · Democracy (2 works) · Economics (2 works) · Law and economics (2 works) · Political economy (2 works) · Politics (2 works) · Public finance (2 works) · Religion and Society Interactions (2 works)