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Canadian Supreme Court Decision-Making: The Personal Attribute Model in Explaining Justices' Patterns of Decision-Making, 1949-1980

This study has two purposes: first, to test the validity of the personal attribute model in explaining judicial voting behavior outside its original cultural context; second, to explain the variation in justice's voting behavior in the Canadian Supreme Court. For the most part, the result arrived in this study supports the validity of the model in cross-cultural analysis. The result of multiple regression analysis shows that four variables, region, judicial experience prior to appointment, political party of appointing Prime Minister, and tenure account for 60 percent of the variations in justice's voting behavior. This result, hence, provides an empirical finding to the development of the personal attribute model in explaining justices' voting behavior.

Identiferoai:union.ndltd.org:unt.edu/info:ark/67531/metadc504493
Date12 1900
CreatorsSittiwong, Panu
ContributorsTate, C. Neal (Chester Neal), 1943-, Gray, Kenneth R.
PublisherNorth Texas State University
Source SetsUniversity of North Texas
LanguageEnglish
Detected LanguageEnglish
TypeThesis or Dissertation
Formatv, 98 leaves : ill., Text
CoverageCanada, 1949-1980
RightsPublic, Sittiwong, Panu, Copyright, Copyright is held by the author, unless otherwise noted. All rights reserved.

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