Christopher Zorn

Pennsylvania State University

University Park

State College, PA 16802

United States

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Law Clerk Influence on Supreme Court Decision Making

Number of pages: 44 Posted: 22 Aug 2006
Todd C. Peppers and Christopher Zorn
Roanoke College and Pennsylvania State University
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Supreme Court, clerks, judicial decision making, voting

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Organized Interests and Agenda Setting in the U.S. Supreme Court Revisited

7th Annual Conference on Empirical Legal Studies Paper
Number of pages: 16 Posted: 17 Jul 2012
Gregory A. Caldeira, John R. Wright and Christopher Zorn
Ohio State University (OSU) - Michael E. Moritz College of Law, Independent and Pennsylvania State University
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Supreme Court, certiorari, agenda-setting, amici curiae, judicial politics

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An Empirical Analysis of Hierarchy Effects in Judicial Decision Making

Number of pages: 33 Posted: 23 May 2007
Christopher Zorn and Jennifer Bowie
Pennsylvania State University and University of Richmond
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hierarchy, judges, judging, decision-making, federal courts

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Executive Discretion, Judicial Decision Making, and Separation of Powers in the United States

Number of pages: 32 Posted: 31 Jul 2008
Clifford Carrubba and Christopher Zorn
Emory University - Department of Political Science and Pennsylvania State University
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Judicial Tenure on the U.S. Supreme Court, 1790-1868: Frustration, Resignation, and Expiration on the Bench

Emory Public Law Research Paper No. 06-10
Number of pages: 44 Posted: 21 Mar 2006
Richard L. Vining, Susan Navarro Smelcer and Christopher Zorn
University of Georgia - Department of Political Science, Georgia State University - College of Law and Pennsylvania State University
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Supreme Court, justices, law, retirement, history

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Working Class Judges

Boston University Law Review, Vol. 88, p. 829, 2008, Vermont Law School Research Paper No. 09-17
Number of pages: 15 Posted: 15 Mar 2009 Last Revised: 14 May 2009
William D. Henderson, Christopher Zorn and Jason J. Czarnezki
Indiana University Maurer School of Law, Pennsylvania State University and Pace University - School of Law
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judges, pay, judicial pay

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The Evolution of Consensus in the U.S. Supreme Court

Number of pages: 25 Posted: 22 Jul 2014
Douglas Rice and Christopher Zorn
University of Massachusetts Amherst - Department of Legal Studies and Pennsylvania State University
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Ideological Extremism, Public Preferences, and Federal Judicial Review in the U.S. Supreme Court

Number of pages: 27 Posted: 23 May 2007
Christopher Zorn
Pennsylvania State University
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Supreme Court, judicial review, decision-making

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Analyzing Text Data

Number of pages: 2 Posted: 22 Jul 2014
Christopher Zorn
Pennsylvania State University
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text, data, machine learning, topic models, scaling, sentiment analysis

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The Politics of Judicial Departures in the U.S. Federal Courts

Number of pages: 32 Posted: 16 Apr 2008
Jessica Perry and Christopher Zorn
Reed Smith LLP and Pennsylvania State University
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federal courts, judges, vacancies, survival analysis

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In Defense of Comparative Statics: Specifying Empirical Tests of Models of Strategic Interaction

Political Analysis, Vol. 15, Issue 4, pp. 465-482, 2007
Posted: 18 Aug 2009
Clifford Carrubba, Amy Yuen and Christopher Zorn
Emory University - Department of Political Science, affiliation not provided to SSRN and Pennsylvania State University

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Surface vs. Contour Plots for the Presentation of Three-Dimensional Data

Political Methodologist, 2008
Posted: 28 Feb 2008 Last Revised: 28 Mar 2008
Christopher Zorn
Pennsylvania State University

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graphical display, contour plots, surface plots, data analysis

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Judicial Tenure on the U.S. Supreme Court, 1790-1868: Frustration, Resignation, and Expiration on the Bench

Studies in American Political Development, Vol. 20, pp. 1-13. Fall 2006
Posted: 23 May 2007
Richard L. Vining, Christopher Zorn and Susan Navarro Smelcer
University of Georgia - Department of Political Science, Pennsylvania State University and Georgia State University - College of Law

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Supreme Court, justices, law, retirement, history

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The Political Consequences of Assassination

Number of pages: 27 Posted: 06 Mar 2006 Last Revised: 12 Nov 2007
Zaryab Iqbal and Christopher Zorn
University of South Carolina and Pennsylvania State University
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assassination, democracy, political stability, international relations