Jeff Yates

Binghamton University - Department of Political Science

Professor

Binghamton, NY 13902

United States

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1.

The Problem of Sports Violence and the Criminal Prosecution Solution

Cornell Journal of Law and Public Policy, Vol. 12, No. 1, p. 145, Fall 2002
Number of pages: 24 Posted: 20 Apr 2005 Last Revised: 24 Feb 2009
Jeff Yates and William Gillespie
Binghamton University - Department of Political Science and Kennesaw State University
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law, legal, criminal, defense, assault, sports, prosecution, canada, provocation, consent

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A War on Drugs or a War on Immigrants? Expanding the Definition of 'Drug Trafficking' in Determining Aggravated Felon Status for Non-Citizens

64 Maryland Law Review 875 (2005)
Number of pages: 42 Posted: 10 Aug 2005 Last Revised: 28 Nov 2020
Jeff Yates, Gabriel Jackson Chin and Todd A. Collins
Binghamton University - Department of Political Science, University of California, Davis - School of Law and Western Carolina University - Political Science
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Immigration, crime, criminal, aggravated felony, felony, alien, deportation, drugs, narcotics, prosecution, public policy, law, legal, economic, states, statutory interpretation, constitutional, federalism, war, equity, president, congress, politics, racial, discrimination

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Racial Incarceration Disparity Among States

Social Science Quarterly, Vol. 78, No. 4, p. 1000, December 1997
Number of pages: 12 Posted: 15 Apr 2005
Jeff Yates
Binghamton University - Department of Political Science
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Racial, Incarceration, Imprisonment, Legal, States, Disparity, Mobilization, Political

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Homegrown Institutional Legitimacy: Assessing Citizens' Diffuse Support for Their State Courts

Number of pages: 42 Posted: 16 Dec 2005
Jeff Yates and Damon M. Cann
Binghamton University - Department of Political Science and Utah State University - Department of Political Science
Downloads 261 (162,590)
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bush, gore, legitimacy, support, courts, supreme, state, campaign, judicial, politics, economics, empirical, quantitative, regression, public, support, survey, diffuse, opinion

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Judges, Litigants and the Design of Courts

CELS 2009 4th Annual Conference on Empirical Legal Studies Paper
Number of pages: 32 Posted: 15 Oct 2006 Last Revised: 13 Nov 2009
Jeff Yates, Paul Brace and Brent D. Boyea
Binghamton University - Department of Political Science, Rice University - Department of Political Science and University of Texas at Arlingtion
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state supreme courts, law, economics, ideology, politics, political torts, tort, rational choice, selection society, empirical statistical regression

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‘For the Times they Are A-Changin’: Explaining Voting Patterns of U.S. Supreme Court Justices through Identification of Micro-Publics

5th Annual Conference on Empirical Legal Studies Paper
Number of pages: 28 Posted: 16 Jul 2009 Last Revised: 21 Jun 2014
Jeff Yates, Justin A Moeller and Brian Levey
Binghamton University - Department of Political Science, University of Georgia and University of Georgia
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supreme court, social psychology, group identity, regression, statistical, attitudinal, strategic, case, public opinion, greenhouse effect, audiences, justices

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The Politics of Torts: Explaining Litigation Rates in the American States

State Politics & Policy Quarterly, Vol. 1, No. 2, Summer 2001
Number of pages: 17 Posted: 06 Apr 2005
Belinda Davis, Henry R. Glick and Jeff Yates
Michigan State University - Department of Political Science, Florida State University - Department of Political Science and Binghamton University - Department of Political Science
Downloads 179 (230,757)
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Tort, litigation, crises, courts, law, lawyers, litigiousness, politics, disputes

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Do Institutions Really Matter? Assessing the Impact of State Judicial Structures on Citizen Litigiousness

1st Annual Conference on Empirical Legal Studies Paper
Number of pages: 35 Posted: 15 Sep 2005
Paul Brace, Holley Tankersley and Jeff Yates
Rice University - Department of Political Science, Coastal Carolina University and Binghamton University - Department of Political Science
Downloads 164 (248,465)
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tort, posner, priest, selection, litigation, galanter, lawsuits, economic, law, state, courts, trial, regression, lawyers, politics, elections, professionalism

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Supreme Court Power Play: Assessing the Appropriate Role of the Senate in the Confirmation Process

Number of pages: 18 Posted: 22 Apr 2005
Jeff Yates and William Gillespie
Binghamton University - Department of Political Science and Kennesaw State University
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Law, legal, Supreme Court, senate, confirmation, nomination, president, founders, advice and consent, Bork, constitution

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Does the Attitudinal Model of Supreme Court Decision Making Depend on Litigation Choices? Applying the Priest-Klein Selection Hypothesis to Litigation in the High Court

7th Annual Conference on Empirical Legal Studies Paper
Number of pages: 30 Posted: 23 May 2012 Last Revised: 14 Jun 2014
Jeff Yates, Damon M. Cann and Brent D. Boyea
Binghamton University - Department of Political Science, Utah State University - Department of Political Science and University of Texas at Arlingtion
Downloads 121 (315,133)
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The Intersection of Judicial Attitudes and Litigant Selection Theories: Explaining U.S. Supreme Court Decision Making

Washington University Journal of Law and Policy, Forthcoming, 3rd Annual Conference on Empirical Legal Studies Paper
Number of pages: 42 Posted: 14 Apr 2008 Last Revised: 04 Mar 2009
Jeff Yates and Elizabeth Coggins
Binghamton University - Department of Political Science and University of North Carolina (UNC) at Chapel Hill
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selection hypothesis, litigants, judicial, politics, political, ideology, attitudinal, decision, supreme court, criminal procedure, criminal, regression, empirical, interaction, legal, strategic

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Perceptions of the Rule of Law: Evidence on the Impact of Judicial Insulation

Number of pages: 38 Posted: 02 Nov 2010 Last Revised: 02 Sep 2014
Jeff Yates, Andrew B. Whitford and David S. Brown
Binghamton University - Department of Political Science, University of Georgia - Department of Public Administration and Policy and University of Colorado at Boulder - Department of Political Science
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rule of law, disappointment, comparative, state, country, world bank, insulation, judicial, de jure, de facto, perceptions, investment

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Politics and State Punitiveness in Black and White

Number of pages: 33 Posted: 07 May 2005
Jeff Yates and Richard Fording
Binghamton University - Department of Political Science and University of Kentucky - Department of Political Science
Downloads 115 (326,574)
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Law, legal, courts, economics, political, prison, incarceration, race, racial, state, justice, criminal

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Election Contestation and Progressive Prosecutors

Ohio State Journal of Criminal Law, Forthcoming
Number of pages: 26 Posted: 23 May 2021
Ronald F. Wright, Jeff Yates and Carissa Byrne Hessick
Wake Forest University - School of Law, Binghamton University - Department of Political Science and University of North Carolina School of Law
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Prosecutors, Elections, Progressive Prosecutors, Crime Politics

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On the Future of State Courts Research

Number of pages: 12 Posted: 16 Apr 2009
Jeff Yates
Binghamton University - Department of Political Science
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states, courts, supreme, trial, intermediate, appellate, policy, politics, statistics, empirical, regression, docket, attitudinal, politics, political, economics, social science, data

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This Side of the Law: Evaluating Citizens' Attitudes Toward Legal Compliance

Number of pages: 29 Posted: 22 Aug 2017
Damon M. Cann and Jeff Yates
Utah State University - Department of Political Science and Binghamton University - Department of Political Science
Downloads 94 (373,280)

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Courts, Structural Equation, Public Opinion, Compliance, Obey, Law Order, Legitimacy

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Regulation in an Era of Surveillance and Other Threats to Privacy

Number of pages: 30 Posted: 24 Nov 2020
Jeff Yates and Andrew B. Whitford
Binghamton University - Department of Political Science and University of Georgia - Department of Public Administration and Policy
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Privacy, Surveillance, Regulation, Public Opinion

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Judicial Response or Litigant Strategy: Examining the Success of the U.S. Solicitor General

APSA 2011 Annual Meeting Paper
Number of pages: 28 Posted: 01 Aug 2011 Last Revised: 13 Jun 2014
Brent D. Boyea, Jeff Yates and Damon M. Cann
University of Texas at Arlingtion, Binghamton University - Department of Political Science and Utah State University - Department of Political Science
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judicial politics, presidency, lawyers, solicitor general, US Supreme Court

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Judicial Ideology and the Selection of Disputes for U.S. Supreme Court Adjudication

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Judicial Ideology and the Selection of Disputes for U.S. Supreme Court Adjudication

Number of pages: 31 Posted: 17 Jun 2014
Jeff Yates, Damon M. Cann and Brent D. Boyea
Binghamton University - Department of Political Science, Utah State University - Department of Political Science and University of Texas at Arlingtion
Downloads 60 (485,848)
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judicial politics, presidency, lawyers, solicitor general, US Supreme Court

Judicial Ideology and the Selection of Disputes for U.S. Supreme Court Adjudication

Journal of Empirical Legal Studies, Vol. 10, Issue 4, pp. 847-865, 2013
Number of pages: 19 Posted: 24 Oct 2013
Jeff Yates, Damon M. Cann and Brent D. Boyea
Binghamton University - Department of Political Science, Utah State University - Department of Political Science and University of Texas at Arlingtion
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Naming Names: The Impact of Supreme Court Opinion Attribution on Citizen Assessment of Policy Outcomes

Number of pages: 52 Posted: 12 Jul 2016
Scott Boddery, Laura P. Moyer and Jeff Yates
Gettysburg College, University of Louisville and Binghamton University - Department of Political Science
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U.S. Supreme Court, American Politics, Political Institutions, Experimental Analysis, Policy Agreement, Gender and Politics, Per Curiam Court Opinions

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Presidential Bureaucratic Power and Supreme Court Justice Voting

Political Behavior, Vol. 21, No. 4, p. 349, 1999
Number of pages: 19 Posted: 14 Apr 2005
Jeff Yates
Binghamton University - Department of Political Science
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supreme court, law, legal, bureaucratic, agency, federal, justices, policy, economic

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Do Policy Messengers Matter? Majority Opinion Writers as Policy Cues in Public 'Buy In' of Supreme Court Decisions

Number of pages: 35 Posted: 22 Dec 2013 Last Revised: 23 Dec 2013
Scott Boddery and Jeff Yates
Gettysburg College and Binghamton University - Department of Political Science
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Supreme Court, judicial politics, public opinion, specific support

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The Adoption of Robotics by Government Agencies: Evidence from Crime Labs

Number of pages: 40 Posted: 12 Aug 2019
Andrew B. Whitford, Jeff Yates, Adam Burchfield, L. Jason Anastasopoulos and Derrick Anderson
University of Georgia - Department of Public Administration and Policy, Binghamton University - Department of Political Science, University of Georgia, Harvard University - Harvard Kennedy School (HKS) and Arizona State University
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robotics, public administration, government, DNA, adoption, technology, crime, laboratory

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'Being' The News: Cable News Hosts and Public Support for Supreme Court Decisions

Number of pages: 36 Posted: 26 May 2022
Scott Boddery, Damon Cann, Laura P. Moyer and Jeff Yates
Gettysburg College, Utah State University, University of Louisville and Binghamton University - Department of Political Science
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source cues, media influence, policy agreement, US Supreme Court, political science, public opinion

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Evaluating Diffuse Support for State High Courts Among Individuals with Varying Levels of Policy Agreement

Cann, Damon M. and Jeff Yates. 2021. "Evaluating Diffuse Support for State High Courts Among Individuals with Varying Levels of Policy Agreement. Social Science Quarterly 102(6):2824-2835.
Number of pages: 32 Posted: 23 May 2022
Damon M. Cann and Jeff Yates
Utah State University - Department of Political Science and Binghamton University - Department of Political Science
Downloads 2 (861,220)

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legitimacy, policy agreement state courts

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The Failed Patient Self-Determination Act and Policy Alternatives for the Right to Die

Journal of Aging & Social Policy, Vol. 9, No. 4, 1997
Posted: 02 Jun 2006
Jeff Yates and Henry R. Glick
Binghamton University - Department of Political Science and Florida State University - Department of Political Science

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law, legal, act, treatment, euthanasia, right to die, advance directives, Cruzan, rationed care, policy, court

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The Elderly and Prison Policy

Journal of Aging & Social Policy, Vol. 11, No. 2/3, 2000
Posted: 02 Jun 2006
William Gillespie and Jeff Yates
Kennesaw State University and Binghamton University - Department of Political Science

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prison, policy, incarceration, elderly, demographics, sentencing guidelines, POPS, end-of-life care

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Policy Signals and Executive Governance: Presidential Rhetoric in the War on Drugs

Journal of Politics, Vol. 65, No. 4, pp. 995-1012, 2003
Posted: 01 Aug 2005 Last Revised: 20 Jan 2015
Andrew B. Whitford and Jeff Yates
University of Georgia - Department of Public Administration and Policy and Binghamton University - Department of Political Science

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law, legal, economic, political science, bureaucracy, prosecutors, attorneys, war on drugs, policy, rhetoric, president, executive, agenda setting

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Agenda Setting, Issue Priorities and Organizational Maintenance: The U.S. Supreme Court, 1955 to 1994

British Journal of Political Science, Vol. 35, p. 369, 2005
Posted: 04 May 2005 Last Revised: 20 Jan 2015
Jeff Yates, Andrew B. Whitford and William Gillespie
Binghamton University - Department of Political Science, University of Georgia - Department of Public Administration and Policy and Kennesaw State University

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law, legal, economic, agenda, supreme court, issue, criminal, political, congress, president

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The Presidency and the Supreme Court after Bush V. Gore: Implications for Institutional Legitimacy and Effectiveness

Stanford Law & Policy Review, Vol. 13, No. 1, p. 101, 2002
Posted: 18 Apr 2005 Last Revised: 20 Jan 2015
Jeff Yates and Andrew B. Whitford
Binghamton University - Department of Political Science and University of Georgia - Department of Public Administration and Policy

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law, legal, bush, gore, president, court, empirical, survey, election, confirmation, nomination, justices

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Presidential Power and the United States Supreme Court

Political Research Quarterly, Vol. 51, No.2, pp. 539-550, June 1998
Posted: 22 Mar 2005 Last Revised: 20 Jan 2015
Andrew B. Whitford and Jeff Yates
University of Georgia - Department of Public Administration and Policy and Binghamton University - Department of Political Science

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President, supreme court, ideology, presidential approval, foreign policy, constitutional