• Login
    View Item 
    •   Home
    • University Colleges
    • SUNY Brockport
    • Theses
    • Senior Honors Theses
    • View Item
    •   Home
    • University Colleges
    • SUNY Brockport
    • Theses
    • Senior Honors Theses
    • View Item
    JavaScript is disabled for your browser. Some features of this site may not work without it.

    Browse

    All of SUNY Open Access RepositoryCommunitiesPublication DateAuthorsTitlesSubjectsDepartmentThis CollectionPublication DateAuthorsTitlesSubjectsDepartmentAuthor ProfilesView

    My Account

    LoginRegister

    Campus Communities in SOAR

    Alfred State CollegeBrockportBroomeCantonDownstateEmpireFredoniaMaritimeNew PaltzOneontaOptometryOswegoPlattsburghSUNY Polytechnic InstituteSUNY Office of Community Colleges and the Education PipelineSUNY PressUpstate Medical

    Statistics

    Most Popular ItemsStatistics by CountryMost Popular Authors

    The Ideological Operation of the United States Supreme Court

    • CSV
    • RefMan
    • EndNote
    • BibTex
    • RefWorks
    Thumbnail
    Name:
    honors/50/fulltext (1).pdf
    Size:
    196.4Kb
    Format:
    PDF
    Download
    Average rating
     
       votes
    Cast your vote
    You can rate an item by clicking the amount of stars they wish to award to this item. When enough users have cast their vote on this item, the average rating will also be shown.
    Star rating
     
    Your vote was cast
    Thank you for your feedback
    Author
    Taylor, Amy
    Keyword
    Brockport Honors Program
    United States Supreme Court
    Ideology
    Date Published
    2011-04-01
    
    Metadata
    Show full item record
    URI
    http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.12648/6799
    Abstract
    The United States Supreme Court is one of the most influential government institutions in America. As gatekeepers of our nation’s integrity, they are expected to bypass their own beliefs on certain issues and make decisions based purely on precedence and the laws of the Constitution of the United States. But how much of a Supreme Court justice’s decision is influenced by his or her personal ideology? This paper seeks to determine if a significant correlation exists between a given justice’s ideology and their voting patterns by analyzing death penalty decisions specifically. Analysis was conducted by finding an external rating for each justice’s ideology, called Martin-Quinn scores, and comparing them with a “conservativeness scale” that was derived from 25 death penalty decisions. The results show that a strong correlation exists between a Supreme Court justice’s ideology and the way they vote in death penalty cases. The findings of this project bring to light other serious questions: Based on the pattern of voting, can we say that the Supreme Court – theoretically the most objective American institution – can ever be truly unbiased? Is this expectation of objectivity realistic? Are the biases that are manifested in the Supreme Court’s decisions a violation of American democracy?
    Collections
    Senior Honors Theses

    entitlement

     

    DSpace software (copyright © 2002 - 2023)  DuraSpace
    Quick Guide | Contact Us
    Open Repository is a service operated by 
    Atmire NV
     

    Export search results

    The export option will allow you to export the current search results of the entered query to a file. Different formats are available for download. To export the items, click on the button corresponding with the preferred download format.

    By default, clicking on the export buttons will result in a download of the allowed maximum amount of items.

    To select a subset of the search results, click "Selective Export" button and make a selection of the items you want to export. The amount of items that can be exported at once is similarly restricted as the full export.

    After making a selection, click one of the export format buttons. The amount of items that will be exported is indicated in the bubble next to export format.