Working Papers

Old Working Papers

On this page, I have stored some old working papers and some abandoned projects. These at least contain some decent ideas:

• Introducing Pastology in Philosophy of Law

• The Flexible Constitution: An Interview

• On the Problems of Political Science and the Nonsense of Quantitative Ideology Models

• The Attitudinal Model, Political Science, Ecological Fallacy and Exaggeration

 

Dormant Program

My scholarship changed in 2007, when I abandoned quantitative judicial “ideology models” in favor of pursuing legal philosophy. The conversion had to do with becoming Wittgensteinian and no longer believing in the field's integrity. This material is slated to be substantially overhauled in my ideology book. I cannot vouch for its worth in the present format, because it offers criticism from the perspective of one still under certain charms of the field. The criticism, one wants to say, lives within a jar.

• A Fresh Approach to the Politics of Law: How Constitutional Words Form a Cognitive Structure That Influences the Judicial Mind; an Examination of Key Areas of Civil Liberties Voting.

• The Effect of Ideology on Supreme Court Judging Over Time

• Modeling Justice Ideology Without Ecological Inference

• The Attitudinal Model, Political Science, Ecological Fallacy and Exaggeration

• Political Ideology as a Fluctuating Rather Than Defining Force Upon the Court: An Analysis of Discreet Areas of Civil Liberties Voting

• The Effect of Ideology on Supreme Court Judging Over Time: An Influence on the Decline?

• The Failure of Instrumentalism: An Analysis of Votes by Conservative Justices on the U.S. Supreme Court in the Area of Core Political Speech.

Dissertation

• The Influence of Legal Language Upon Supreme Court Voting in Civil Liberties Cases