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dc.contributor.authorRiley, Chaden_US
dc.date.accessioned2015-07-31T22:10:16Z
dc.date.available2015-07-31T22:10:16Z
dc.date.submittedJanuary 2015en_US
dc.identifier.otherDISS-13141en_US
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/10106/25088
dc.description.abstractThis study investigated the influence of: (1) justices' political ideology; (2) justices' religious affiliation; (3) justices' qualifications; and (4) legal precedent on voting at the United States Supreme Court in Establishment Clause decisions and other such decisions impacting K-12 education rendered between 1947 and 2014, using binary logistic regression as its main statistical tool. The principal findings for this group of K-12 decisions are:(1) Ideology as measured by party-of- the-appointing president and Segal-Cover scale measures were significant predictors of conservative voting in the Establishment Clause decisions examined;(2) Higher Segal-Cover qualification scores, indicating higher levels of qualifications, were correlated to less conservative voting;(3) U.S. Supreme Court legal precedents Zobrest v. Catalina Hills School District (1993), Agostini v. Felton (1997), and Zelman v. Simmons-Harris (2002) did not show significance as factors in judicial voting.The results of the study support the conclusion that the attitudinal model of judicial voting behavior is an effective method for understanding how Supreme Court justices vote in Establishment Clause disputes that impact K-12 education.en_US
dc.description.sponsorshipWasserman, Lewis M.en_US
dc.language.isoenen_US
dc.publisherEducationen_US
dc.titleIdeological And Legal Determinants Of U.S. Supreme Court Justices' Voting In Establishment Clause Cases In K-12 Education: 1947-2014en_US
dc.typePh.D.en_US
dc.contributor.committeeChairWasserman, Lewis M.en_US
dc.degree.departmentEducationen_US
dc.degree.disciplineEducationen_US
dc.degree.grantorUniversity of Texas at Arlingtonen_US
dc.degree.leveldoctoralen_US
dc.degree.namePh.D.en_US


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