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Graduate Student Participation

at Professional Conferences

 

2011:

 

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Rebecca Reid and Kirk A. Randazzo. "Bottom-up or Top-down? High Courts and International Norms." Southern Political Science Association in New Orleans, LA.

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Fix, Michael P. "Are All Agencies Equal: An Examination of Variation in Agency Success Rates in the U.S. Courts of Appeals." Southern Political Science Association in New Orleans, LA.

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Schorpp, Susanne. "The Effect of War on U.K. House of Lords and U.S. Supreme Court Decision Making." Southern Political Science Association in New Orleans, LA.

 

2010:

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Kassow, Benjamin and Kirk A. Randazzo. "The Effect of Institutional Changes on Judicial Behavior in the U.S. Courts of Appeals." American Political Science Association in Washington, DC.

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Schorpp, Susanne. "The Rule of Law in Times of War: The Effect of War on Canadian and U.S. Supreme Court Decision Making." American Political Science Association in Washington, DC.

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Songer, Donald R. and Jessica Link. "Debunking the Myths Surrounding the Attitudinal Model of Supreme Court Decision Making." American Political Science Association in Washington, DC.

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Schorpp, Susanne. "The Impact of War on the Federal Courts of Appeals: Variations on Modeling Time and Time-Varying Relationships." Society for Political Methodology in Iowa City, IA.

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Schorpp, Susanne, Rebecca Reid, and Donald R. Songer. "War and Gender: Gendered Differences in Making Tradeoffs Between Civil Liberties and National Security in the U.S. Courts of Appeals, 1950-2007." Midwest Political Science Association in Chicago, IL.

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Kassow, Benjamin and Charles J. Finocchiaro. "Responsiveness and Electoral Accountability in the U.S. Senate." Midwest Political Science Association in Chicago, IL.

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Fix, Michael P. "Are We Testing What We Think We're Testing? A Theoretical Evaluation of Methods for Testing Hypotheses About Temporal Changepoints." St. Louis Area Methods Meeting in St. Louis, MO.

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Schorpp, Susanne and Kirk A. Randazzo. "Fear of Reversal by the Supreme Court? Testing Strategic Anticipation in a Judicial Hierarchy." Southern Political Science Association in Atlanta, GA.

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Fix, Michael P. "A Signaling Game of Judicial Review and Agency Implementation." Southern Political Science Association in Atlanta, GA.

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Schorpp, Susanne and Charles Finocchiaro. "Congressional Deference to Executive Interests During Times of War." Southern Political Science Association in Atlanta, GA.

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Kassow, Benjamin. "Issue Salience, Amicus Briefs, and Institutional Structures: Impacts on State Supreme Court Decision-Making." Southern Political Science Association in Atlanta, GA.

 

2009:

 

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Fix, Michael P., Daniel S. Morey, and Kirk A. Randazzo. "The Strategic Presidency During Confirmation: Rhetoric, Uncertainty, and the Selling of Supreme Court Nominees." American Political Science Association in Toronto, ON, Canada.

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Schorpp, Susanne, Donald R. Songer, Tajuana Massie, Rebeccah Boxt, and Mary McDonald. "The Effect of War on the U.S. Federal Courts of Appeals: An Analysis of U.S. Appeals Court Treatment of War Related Cases." American Political Science Association in Toronto, ON, Canada.

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Schorpp, Susanne. "U.S. Supreme Court Decision Making on Foreign Policy Cases During Wartime." Midwest Political Science Association in Chicago, IL.

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Randazzo, Kirk A., Richard W. Waterman, and Michael P. Fix. "State Supreme Courts and the Effects of Statutory Constraint: A Test of the Model of Contingent Discretion." Southern Political Science Association in New Orleans, LA.

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Kassow, Benjamin, Donald R. Songer, and Michael P. Fix. "The Influence of Precedent on State Supreme Courts." Southern Political Science Association in New Orleans, LA.

 

2008:
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Sanchez Urribarri, Raul, Donald R. Songer, and Susanne Schorpp. "Towards a Multivariate Model to Explain Changes of Rights Litigation and Protection Comparatively." Midwest Political Science Association in Chicago, IL.

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Schorpp, Susanne, Raul Sanchez Urribarri, and Donald R. Songer. "What Rights in the 'Rights Revolution'? Analyzing Criminal and other Civil Rights Cases Separately." Southern Political Science Association in New Orleans, LA.

 

2007:
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Songer, Donald R., Raul Sanchez Urribarri, Susanne Schorpp, and Vanessa Portela. "The Rights Revolution and Institutional Change." Midwest Political Science Association in Chicago, IL.