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Checking for a Narrower Impact of White

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  21 October 2022

Garrett N. Vande Kamp
Garrett N. Vande Kamp*
Affiliation:
Texas A&M University
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Contact the author at garrettvandekamp@tamu.edu.
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Abstract

Analysis of Republican Party of Minnesota v. White by political scientists shows that White had no appreciable effect on the conduct or outcome of judicial elections, including a comprehensive study of White by Chris W. Bonneau, Melinda Gann Hall, and Matthew J. Streb. Yet there is reason to believe that White may have had a more narrow impact than Bonneau, Hall, and Streb originally allowed. An extension of their original analysis is conducted, with results showing that their findings are largely robust to more tailored model specifications. Exceptions include findings on ballot roll-off, but contradictory results further support the notion that White truly had no effect.

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Research Article
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Journal of Law and Courts , Volume 7 , Issue 1 , Spring 2019 , pp. 149 - 157
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© 2018 by the Law and Courts Organized Section of the American Political Science Association. All rights reserved.

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Footnotes

I gratefully acknowledge Joseph Ura, Bill Clark, Michelle Taylor-Robinson, the Texas A&M Summer 2016 Writing Class, and the Ura Writing Group for their helpful feedback and encouragement; Chris Bonneau for providing the data for the project; and Joshua Nazarene for the inspiration at multiple points throughout. All remaining mistakes are my own.

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