Udi Sommer

Columbia University - Department of Political Science

7th Floor, International Affairs Bldg.

420 W. 118th Street

New York, NY 10027

United States

Tel Aviv University

Professor

Ramat Aviv

Tel Aviv

Tel Aviv, Israel 62486

Israel

SCHOLARLY PAPERS

29

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Ideas:
“  In times when the public and scholarly debates around the effects of norms on political decision making are at their height—and in light of the argument that government decisionmakers are now likelier than ever to put political payoffs above norms—I'd like to examine this question in an institutional setting where norms are expected to reign supreme: The Supreme Court. If politics fail to trump norms, the Supreme Court should be the institutional setting where this happens. I’d like to capitalize on an experiment related to judicial recusals.  ”

Scholarly Papers (29)

1.

Extrajudicial Killings: Comparative Analyses of Human Rights Violations

Number of pages: 40 Posted: 22 May 2019 Last Revised: 23 Jun 2019
Udi Sommer and Victor Asal
Columbia University - Department of Political Science and University of Maryland - Department of Government & Politics
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Judicial Independence; Extrajudicial Killings; Human Rights; Judicial Oversight

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Ideological Influences on Governance and Regulation: The Comparative Case of Supreme Courts

Regulation & Governance, Forthcoming, Hebrew University of Jerusalem Legal Research Paper No. 17-12
Number of pages: 41 Posted: 28 Dec 2016 Last Revised: 28 Feb 2017
Keren Weinshall, Udi Sommer and Ya'acov Ritov
Hebrew University of Jerusalem - Faculty of Law, Columbia University - Department of Political Science and Hebrew University of Jerusalem
Downloads 374 (138,333)
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Reconceptualizing the Watchdog: Comparing Media Coverage of COVID-19 Response in Democracy

Number of pages: 51 Posted: 26 Sep 2020
Udi Sommer and Or Rappel-Kroyzer
Columbia University - Department of Political Science and Tel Aviv University
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COVID-19; Media Coverage; Watchdog of Democracy; Democratic Crisis; New Zealand Herald; The Globe and Mail; New York Times

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Extreme Dissensus: Explaining Plurality Decisions on the United States Supreme Court

Number of pages: 32 Posted: 16 Jul 2009 Last Revised: 08 Jun 2010
Vanderbilt University, Columbia University - Department of Political Science, Georgia State University and Northern Illinois University
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Plurality Opinions, US Supreme Court

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The Political Ramifications of Judicial Institutions: Establishing a Link between Dobbs and Gender Disparities in the 2022 Midterms

Number of pages: 21 Posted: 30 Nov 2022
Columbia University - Department of Political Science, Tel Aviv University, CUNY, John Jay College of Criminal Justice, affiliation not provided to SSRN and affiliation not provided to SSRN
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Dobbs v Jackson Women's Health Organization; Roe v. Wade; 2022 Midterm Elections; voter mobilization; voter registration; gender gaps; women and politics; politics of gender; abortion

6.

Women, Demography and Politics: How Lower Fertility Rates Lead to Democracy

Number of pages: 47 Posted: 10 Oct 2017
Udi Sommer
Columbia University - Department of Political Science
Downloads 124 (387,172)
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fertility rate; democracy; demography and politics; family structure

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Political Environment Aspects of COVID-19: Political Urban Attributes, Density and Compliance

Number of pages: 39 Posted: 25 Sep 2020
Nir Barak, Udi Sommer and Nir Mualam
Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, Columbia University - Department of Political Science and Technion-Israel Institute of Technology - Faculty of Architecture and Town Planning
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COVID-19, politics of pandemics, urban politics, political minorities, urban sustainability, urban density, de-densification, compliance, urban sprawl

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Legal Path Dependence and the Long Arm of the Religious State (Excerpts)

"Legal Path Dependence & The Long Arm of the Religious State: Sodomy Provisions and Gay Rights Across Nations and Over Time", SUNY Press (October 20, 2016)
Number of pages: 136 Posted: 16 Jan 2017
Victor Asal and Udi Sommer
State University of New York at Albany and Columbia University - Department of Political Science
Downloads 99 (455,191)

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lgbt; lgbtiq; sodomy laws; legal equality

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Paths to Social Change: Analyses of Decriminalization of Sodomy

Number of pages: 40 Posted: 27 Aug 2018
Udi Sommer and Victor Asal
Columbia University - Department of Political Science and State University of New York at Albany
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Does Faith Limit Immorality? The Politics of Religion and Corruption

Democratization, Volume 20, Issue 2, DOI: org/10.1080/13510347.2011.650914, 2013
Number of pages: 38 Posted: 13 Jan 2017
Columbia University - Department of Political Science, Hebrew University of Jerusalem - Political Science Department and Yasar University
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Corruption; Religion

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Original Sin: A Cross-National Study of the Legality of Homosexual Acts

Comparative Political Studies Volume: 46 issue: 3, page(s): 320-351, Article first published online: September 5, 2012; Issue published: March 1, 2013, DOI: doi/10.1177/0010414012453693
Number of pages: 35 Posted: 12 Jan 2017
Victor Asal, Udi Sommer and Paul Harwood
State University of New York at Albany, Columbia University - Department of Political Science and University of North Florida
Downloads 76 (535,838)
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Sodomy laws; homosexuality; common law; civil law

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Trump’s African Americans? Racial Resentment and Black Support for Trump in the 2020 Elections

Forthcoming in “Politics, Groups, and Identities”
Number of pages: 47 Posted: 27 Oct 2023
Udi Sommer and Idan Franco
Columbia University - Department of Political Science and Northwestern University
Downloads 64 (592,323)

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Racial resentment; Donald Trump; 2020 Elections; African American voters; Stacey Abrams; Clarence Thomas

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Politics of the US COVID-19 Vaccination Campaign: Partisanship’s Effect is Countered only by Increasing Impact for Education

Number of pages: 14 Posted: 17 May 2021
Udi Sommer and Or Rappel-Kroyzer
Columbia University - Department of Political Science and Tel Aviv University
Downloads 54 (638,249)

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COVID-19; political partisanship; vaccination rate; recalcitrant counties; political minorities; civil society; scraping; vaccine hesitancy; Center for Disease Control and Prevention; CDC; African Americans; Latinos; civil society; COVID vaccine

14.

Pandemic Politics: COVID-19 as a New Type of Political Emergency

Forthcoming in Political Psychology
Number of pages: 61 Posted: 20 Oct 2021
Udi Sommer and Or Rappel-Kroyzer
Columbia University - Department of Political Science and Tel Aviv University
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pandemic politics; COVID-19; emergency politics; political partisanship; rally around the flag; US President; mobility patterns; political ideology; residential mobility; workplace mobility; retail & recreation mobility

15.

Women Hold Up Half the Sky: A Comparative Analysis of Women’s Political Rights and Legal Systems from 1981- 2004

Number of pages: 27 Posted: 20 Jun 2019
Udi Sommer and Victor Asal
Columbia University - Department of Political Science and State University of New York at Albany
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political rights; women's rights; legal memory; political discontinuity

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Institutional Paths to Policy Change

Sommer, U., Asal, V., Zuber, K. and Parent, J. (2013), Institutional Paths to Policy Change: Judicial Versus Nonjudicial Repeal of Sodomy Laws. Law & Soc'y Rev, 47: 409–439. doi:10.1111/lasr.12017
Number of pages: 48 Posted: 12 Jan 2017
Columbia University - Department of Political Science, University of Maryland - Department of Government & Politics, Skidmore College and Independent
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Sodomy laws; homosexuality; common law; civil law; judicial institutions; legislatures

17.

International Effects on the Security Wall Rulings of the Israeli High Court

Number of pages: 34 Posted: 31 Oct 2017
Udi Sommer
Columbia University - Department of Political Science
Downloads 41 (716,535)
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Israel; israeli supreme court; strategic judicial behavior; judicial behavior

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Explaining the Birthright Citizenship Lottery: Longitudinal and Cross-National Evidence for Key Determinants

Regulation & Governance, Forthcoming
Number of pages: 27 Posted: 24 May 2018
Omer Solodoch and Udi Sommer
Hebrew University of Jerusalem and Columbia University - Department of Political Science
Downloads 40 (723,309)

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Citizenship, Birthright citizenship, Immigration policy, jus soli, Birthright lottery, the politics of citizenship

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Media Coverage and the Success of COVID-19 Response in Democracy

Forthcoming in Journal of Information Technology & Politics
Number of pages: 46 Posted: 20 Oct 2021
Udi Sommer and Or Rappel-Kroyzer
Columbia University - Department of Political Science and Tel Aviv University
Downloads 32 (781,326)

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COVID-19; natural language processing; NLP; pandemic prevention policy; watchdog of democracy; dependency parsing; datamining; timing of media coverage

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Is Certiorari Contingent on Litigant Behavior? Petitioners’ Role in Strategic Auditing

Journal of Empirical Legal Studies Volume 10, Issue 1, March 2013, Pages 54–75, DOI: 10.1111/jels.12002
Number of pages: 22 Posted: 09 Jan 2017
Maxwell Mak, Andrew H. Sidman and Udi Sommer
CUNY, John Jay College of Criminal Justice, CUNY, John Jay College of Criminal Justice and Columbia University - Department of Political Science
Downloads 32 (781,326)
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supreme court agenda setting; ussc; scotus; litigation; cert; certiorari

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A Cross-National Analysis of the Guarantees of Rights

International Political Science Review 2014, Vol. 35(4) 463–481 DOI: 10.1177/0192512112455209
Number of pages: 38 Posted: 12 Jan 2017
Udi Sommer and Victor Asal
Columbia University - Department of Political Science and State University of New York at Albany
Downloads 27 (821,578)

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gay rights; lgbt; lgbtiq; equality under law; comparative law; ilo; international labour organization

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Representative Appointments: The Effect of Women's Groups in Contentious Supreme Court Confirmations

Journal of Women, Politics & Policy, Volume 34, 2013 - Issue 1, doi/10.1080/1554477X.2013.747876
Number of pages: 32 Posted: 13 Jan 2017
Udi Sommer
Columbia University - Department of Political Science
Downloads 24 (847,410)
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congress; supreme court; appointments; judicial appointments; senate judiciary committee; women rights; women representation; political representation

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Crusades against Corruption and Institutionally-Induced Strategies in the Israeli Supreme Court

Israel Affairs ,Volume 15, 2009 - Issue 3 doi/10.1080/13537120902983031
Number of pages: 32 Posted: 12 Jan 2017
Udi Sommer
Columbia University - Department of Political Science
Downloads 23 (856,285)

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Israel; israeli supreme court; strategic judicial behavior; judicial behavior

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A Strategic Court and National Security: Comparative Lessons from the Israeli Case

Israel Studies Forum, Volume 25, Issue 2, p. 54–80 DOI/0.3167/isf.2010.250203, Fall 2010
Number of pages: 27 Posted: 09 Jan 2017
Udi Sommer
Columbia University - Department of Political Science
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National Security; Judicial Institutions; Israeli Supreme Court; 9/11

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Norms and Political Payoffs in Supreme Court Recusals

Political Behavior, 2020 https://doi.org/10.1007/s11109-020-09640-3
Number of pages: 32 Posted: 14 Nov 2020
Udi Sommer
Columbia University - Department of Political Science
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Globalization, Threat and Religious Freedom

Political Studies Volume 62, Issue 2, pp. 273-291, DOI: 10.1111/1467-9248.12060, June 2014
Posted: 13 Jan 2017
Gizem Arikan and Udi Sommer
Yasar University and Columbia University - Department of Political Science

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Globalization; Freedom of Religion; Threat

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Comparing Ideological Decision Making in High Courts: An Institutional and Contextual Analysis

APSA 2012 Annual Meeting Paper
Posted: 15 Jul 2012
Udi Sommer and Keren Weinshall
Columbia University - Department of Political Science and Hebrew University of Jerusalem - Faculty of Law

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Fertility and Politics: A Cross-National Examination of the Connection between Demography and Democracy

APSA 2011 Annual Meeting Paper
Posted: 01 Aug 2011
Udi Sommer
Columbia University - Department of Political Science

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State Courts and Mortgage Moratorium Laws in the 1930s: The Interaction of Economic Conditions and Political Institutions

Western Political Science Association 2010 Annual Meeting Paper
Posted: 29 Mar 2010
Udi Sommer and Quan Li
Columbia University - Department of Political Science and University of Central Florida

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