Burton Atkins
Biographic Data
| ID | 653561 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Burton Atkins |
| GIVEN NAMES | Burton |
| FAMILY NAME | Atkins |
| SIGNATURE | ATKINS B |
| AFFILIATIONS | Flonda State University |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 4 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 14 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 4 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1976 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1990 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Interventions and Power in Judicial Hierarchies: Appellate Courts in England and the United States
Despite the advances made in the study of appellate courts in the past several decades, little attention has been devoted to evaluating the role of appellate courts cross-nationally. This article examines appellate courts in England and in America, particularly the English Court of Appeal and the U.S. Circuit Courts of Appeals. The American and English systems are proposed as alternative models of the relationship between courts and their respect…
The Effect of a Black Candidate in Stimulating Voter Participation in Statewide Elections: A Note on a Quiet "Revolution" in Southern Politics
One issue that has attracted considerable attention in the political science literature concerns the magnitude of difference, if any, in the levels of electoral participation among black and white voters. Much literature assumes that blacks vote in lower proportions than do whites in the United States (Milbrath and Goel, 1977) and that this difference is particularly acute in the South (Matthews and Prothro, 1966). This proposition's validity, ba…
Personality Theory and Judging: A Proposed Theory of Self‐Esteem and Judicial Policy‐Making
Although a variety of explanatory models have been used in recent years to explain and describe individual and aggregate judicial policy‐making, little attention has been devoted to how a judge's personality may affect his or her policy choices on the bench. In fact, psychological models are important for understanding twentieth‐century jurisprudence as well as for conceptualizing the conditions under which an individual decision maker will exerc…
Probable causes for police corruption: Some theories
Interventions and Power in Judicial Hierarchies: Appellate Courts in England and the United States
Despite the advances made in the study of appellate courts in the past several decades, little attention has been devoted to evaluating the role of appellate courts cross-nationally. This article examines appellate courts in England and in America, particularly the English Court of Appeal and the U.S. Circuit Courts of Appeals. The American and English systems are proposed as alternative models of the relationship between courts and their respect…
Personality Theory and Judging: A Proposed Theory of Self‐Esteem and Judicial Policy‐Making
Although a variety of explanatory models have been used in recent years to explain and describe individual and aggregate judicial policy‐making, little attention has been devoted to how a judge's personality may affect his or her policy choices on the bench. In fact, psychological models are important for understanding twentieth‐century jurisprudence as well as for conceptualizing the conditions under which an individual decision maker will exerc…
Probable causes for police corruption: Some theories
Personality Theory and Judging: A Proposed Theory of Self‐Esteem and Judicial Policy‐Making
Although a variety of explanatory models have been used in recent years to explain and describe individual and aggregate judicial policy‐making, little attention has been devoted to how a judge's personality may affect his or her policy choices on the bench. In fact, psychological models are important for understanding twentieth‐century jurisprudence as well as for conceptualizing the conditions under which an individual decision maker will exerc…
The Effect of a Black Candidate in Stimulating Voter Participation in Statewide Elections: A Note on a Quiet "Revolution" in Southern Politics
One issue that has attracted considerable attention in the political science literature concerns the magnitude of difference, if any, in the levels of electoral participation among black and white voters. Much literature assumes that blacks vote in lower proportions than do whites in the United States (Milbrath and Goel, 1977) and that this difference is particularly acute in the South (Matthews and Prothro, 1966). This proposition's validity, ba…
Interventions and Power in Judicial Hierarchies: Appellate Courts in England and the United States
Despite the advances made in the study of appellate courts in the past several decades, little attention has been devoted to evaluating the role of appellate courts cross-nationally. This article examines appellate courts in England and in America, particularly the English Court of Appeal and the U.S. Circuit Courts of Appeals. The American and English systems are proposed as alternative models of the relationship between courts and their respect…
Law (4 works) · Political science (4 works) · Psychology (4 works) · Economics (3 works) · Law (3 works) · Positive economics (3 works) · Social Psychology (3 works) · Computer Science (2 works) · Judicial review (2 works) · Law, Economics, and Judicial Systems (2 works)