Capital punishment remains legal in most U.S. states even though only a small number of them regularly impose it. I attribute the persistence of death penalty statutes to the existence of direct democracy institutions in about half the states. Applying a longitudinal research design that leverages annual estimates of state death penalty opinion, I show that these institutions strengthen the connection between public opinion and capital punishment’s legality, indicating that they foster policy responsiveness. By extension, because citizens have generally favored capital punishment, I find that direct democracy states are more likely to have the death penalty. I also demonstrate that direct democracy increases the likelihood that policy will ...
The death penalty in the United States has its set of controversies from the people who support and ...
This time-series study uses hypotheses derived from a politically refined version of conflict theory...
Today, despite daily struggles in courtrooms against capital punishment, there appears little legal ...
Capital punishment remains legal in most U.S. states even though only a small number of them regular...
This paper assesses the conditional effect of direct democracy on death penalty policy in the Americ...
Despite the 1976 affirmation by the Supreme Court that the death penalty does not violate the Consti...
Artigo com refereeThe overall purpose of this paper is to examine the determinants of the adoption a...
Abstract. The overall purpose of this paper is to examine the determinants of the adoption and commi...
What explains the difference between the United States and the many other countries that have abolis...
Strong public support for capital punishment is arguably the number one reason why the death penalty...
A recent national poll found that sixty-five percent of Americans favor the death penalty. That\u27s...
Although supported in principle by two-thirds of the public and even more of the States, capital pun...
Americans\u27 views on capital punishment have stabilized. In 1994, when Professor Phoebe Ellsworth ...
Set against the backdrop of Nebraska’s 2015 legislative repeal of the death penalty and the 2016 ele...
Although supported in principle by two-thirds of the public and even more of the States, capital pun...
The death penalty in the United States has its set of controversies from the people who support and ...
This time-series study uses hypotheses derived from a politically refined version of conflict theory...
Today, despite daily struggles in courtrooms against capital punishment, there appears little legal ...
Capital punishment remains legal in most U.S. states even though only a small number of them regular...
This paper assesses the conditional effect of direct democracy on death penalty policy in the Americ...
Despite the 1976 affirmation by the Supreme Court that the death penalty does not violate the Consti...
Artigo com refereeThe overall purpose of this paper is to examine the determinants of the adoption a...
Abstract. The overall purpose of this paper is to examine the determinants of the adoption and commi...
What explains the difference between the United States and the many other countries that have abolis...
Strong public support for capital punishment is arguably the number one reason why the death penalty...
A recent national poll found that sixty-five percent of Americans favor the death penalty. That\u27s...
Although supported in principle by two-thirds of the public and even more of the States, capital pun...
Americans\u27 views on capital punishment have stabilized. In 1994, when Professor Phoebe Ellsworth ...
Set against the backdrop of Nebraska’s 2015 legislative repeal of the death penalty and the 2016 ele...
Although supported in principle by two-thirds of the public and even more of the States, capital pun...
The death penalty in the United States has its set of controversies from the people who support and ...
This time-series study uses hypotheses derived from a politically refined version of conflict theory...
Today, despite daily struggles in courtrooms against capital punishment, there appears little legal ...