William Haltom
Biographic Data
| ID | 967720 |
|---|---|
| NAME | William Haltom |
| GIVEN NAMES | William |
| FAMILY NAME | Haltom |
| SIGNATURE | HALTOM W |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Puget Sound |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-9149-578X |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 12 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 131 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 12 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1980 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2021 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
When might claims of “too much litigation” be other than political sloganeering?
This paper answers “Too Much Litigation?” in three ways. First, when politicos presume or assert that the culture of the United States suffers too much litigation, they often trade in political talking points, expedient distortions, disingenuous enumeration, and opportunistic anecdotalism that tend to preserve or increase the advantages of those who have more over those who have less. Second, when analysts inquire what kinds of litigation serve w…
Criminalizing Big Tobacco
This article reinterprets the discursive terms and cultural meanings that redefined the legal campaign against Big Tobacco during recent decades. We underline the palpable shift from a conventional tort-based logic of products liability claims, which most analysts emphasize, to a logic incorporating key features identified with criminal law or “crimtorts.” The study builds on legal mobilization theory and combines narrative history of events with…
Ordinary Heroes vs. Failed Lawyers—Public Interest Litigation in Erin Brockovich and Other Contemporary Films
Although feature films may overpraise lawyers and civil courts as means of securing justice, they caricature lawyers and litigation. Analysis of Erin Brockovich (directed by Steven Soderbergh and produced by Danny DeVito, et al., 2000) reveals four motifs—two favorable and two unfavorable to public‐interest litigants and litigation—that characterize similar films in the last decades: Class Action (1991) , The Rainmaker (1997) , The Sweet Hereafte…
On Analyzing Legal Culture
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Distorting the Law
The Confirmation Mess
Borking For Fun And Profit The Televised Backyard Fence Of Nannies, Sound Bites, and Confirmation Nonsense Of Litmus Testers and Stealth Candidates Of Judicial Philosophy and Democratic Checkery Of Brown and Being Morally Off Limits * Governing Instead Of Gossiping The Disqualification Problem, Revisited Some Modest Proposals, Reviewed
Liberal-Conservative Continua
Q uality survey data require surveyors to ask the right questions of the right respondents. This requirement is particularly acute for preeminent data sets and templates for other research. The 1984 Ameri_ can National Election Study (ANES) supplemented an item used since 1972 with a new measure of ideological self-location. This paper compares responses to old and new questions and assesses the relative reliability and validity of variables deri…
United States
Conservatives in Court. Lee Epstein
Repairing the News
Journal Article Repairing the News: A case Study of the News Paradigm Get access W. Lance, W. Lance Professor 1University of Washington Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Lynne A. Gressett, Ph.D., Lynne A. Gressett, Ph.D. 1University of Washington Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar William Haltom William Haltom Assistant Professor 2University of Vermont Search for other w…
Issues, Voter Choice, and Critical Elections
The study of critical elections in American politics has been marked by a steady growth of knowledge and a remarkable consensus among practitioners in the field. Although minor quibbles have appeared from time to time, the work within each generation has set the agenda for the work of the next. The pioneering efforts of Key (1955, 1959), Schattschneider (1960), and MacRae and Meldrum (1960) produced clear descriptions of the phenomenon of critica…
Issues, Voter Choice, and Critical Elections
Repairing the News
Journal Article Repairing the News: A case Study of the News Paradigm Get access W. Lance, W. Lance Professor 1University of Washington Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Lynne A. Gressett, Ph.D., Lynne A. Gressett, Ph.D. 1University of Washington Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar William Haltom William Haltom Assistant Professor 2University of Vermont Search for other w…
Criminalizing Big Tobacco
This article reinterprets the discursive terms and cultural meanings that redefined the legal campaign against Big Tobacco during recent decades. We underline the palpable shift from a conventional tort-based logic of products liability claims, which most analysts emphasize, to a logic incorporating key features identified with criminal law or “crimtorts.” The study builds on legal mobilization theory and combines narrative history of events with…
Ordinary Heroes vs. Failed Lawyers—Public Interest Litigation in Erin Brockovich and Other Contemporary Films
Although feature films may overpraise lawyers and civil courts as means of securing justice, they caricature lawyers and litigation. Analysis of Erin Brockovich (directed by Steven Soderbergh and produced by Danny DeVito, et al., 2000) reveals four motifs—two favorable and two unfavorable to public‐interest litigants and litigation—that characterize similar films in the last decades: Class Action (1991) , The Rainmaker (1997) , The Sweet Hereafte…
The Confirmation Mess
Borking For Fun And Profit The Televised Backyard Fence Of Nannies, Sound Bites, and Confirmation Nonsense Of Litmus Testers and Stealth Candidates Of Judicial Philosophy and Democratic Checkery Of Brown and Being Morally Off Limits * Governing Instead Of Gossiping The Disqualification Problem, Revisited Some Modest Proposals, Reviewed
Liberal-Conservative Continua
Q uality survey data require surveyors to ask the right questions of the right respondents. This requirement is particularly acute for preeminent data sets and templates for other research. The 1984 Ameri_ can National Election Study (ANES) supplemented an item used since 1972 with a new measure of ideological self-location. This paper compares responses to old and new questions and assesses the relative reliability and validity of variables deri…
On Analyzing Legal Culture
An abstract is not available for this content so a preview has been provided. Please use the Get access link above for information on how to access this content
Issues, Voter Choice, and Critical Elections
Issues, Voter Choice, and Critical Elections
The study of critical elections in American politics has been marked by a steady growth of knowledge and a remarkable consensus among practitioners in the field. Although minor quibbles have appeared from time to time, the work within each generation has set the agenda for the work of the next. The pioneering efforts of Key (1955, 1959), Schattschneider (1960), and MacRae and Meldrum (1960) produced clear descriptions of the phenomenon of critica…
Issues, Voter Choice, and Critical Elections
Repairing the News
Journal Article Repairing the News: A case Study of the News Paradigm Get access W. Lance, W. Lance Professor 1University of Washington Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Lynne A. Gressett, Ph.D., Lynne A. Gressett, Ph.D. 1University of Washington Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar William Haltom William Haltom Assistant Professor 2University of Vermont Search for other w…
Conservatives in Court. Lee Epstein
United States
Liberal-Conservative Continua
Q uality survey data require surveyors to ask the right questions of the right respondents. This requirement is particularly acute for preeminent data sets and templates for other research. The 1984 Ameri_ can National Election Study (ANES) supplemented an item used since 1972 with a new measure of ideological self-location. This paper compares responses to old and new questions and assesses the relative reliability and validity of variables deri…
The Confirmation Mess
Borking For Fun And Profit The Televised Backyard Fence Of Nannies, Sound Bites, and Confirmation Nonsense Of Litmus Testers and Stealth Candidates Of Judicial Philosophy and Democratic Checkery Of Brown and Being Morally Off Limits * Governing Instead Of Gossiping The Disqualification Problem, Revisited Some Modest Proposals, Reviewed
Distorting the Law
On Analyzing Legal Culture
An abstract is not available for this content so a preview has been provided. Please use the Get access link above for information on how to access this content
Ordinary Heroes vs. Failed Lawyers—Public Interest Litigation in Erin Brockovich and Other Contemporary Films
Although feature films may overpraise lawyers and civil courts as means of securing justice, they caricature lawyers and litigation. Analysis of Erin Brockovich (directed by Steven Soderbergh and produced by Danny DeVito, et al., 2000) reveals four motifs—two favorable and two unfavorable to public‐interest litigants and litigation—that characterize similar films in the last decades: Class Action (1991) , The Rainmaker (1997) , The Sweet Hereafte…
Criminalizing Big Tobacco
This article reinterprets the discursive terms and cultural meanings that redefined the legal campaign against Big Tobacco during recent decades. We underline the palpable shift from a conventional tort-based logic of products liability claims, which most analysts emphasize, to a logic incorporating key features identified with criminal law or “crimtorts.” The study builds on legal mobilization theory and combines narrative history of events with…
When might claims of “too much litigation” be other than political sloganeering?
This paper answers “Too Much Litigation?” in three ways. First, when politicos presume or assert that the culture of the United States suffers too much litigation, they often trade in political talking points, expedient distortions, disingenuous enumeration, and opportunistic anecdotalism that tend to preserve or increase the advantages of those who have more over those who have less. Second, when analysts inquire what kinds of litigation serve w…
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