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James Melton

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Publications

18

Citations

1.9K

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Active since

1989

Affiliations

University of Chicago(Current)

The University of Texas at Austin

Chicago Kent College of Law

University College London

University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign

James Melton is an author at University of Chicago specializing in political science, law, and language studies.

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PoliticsLawClassicsLanguageCultural HistoryIntellectual HistorySocial SciencesConstitutional LawConstitutional TheoryFederal Constitutional Law

Publications per year

1989–2016

18

Publications

18

Democratic Compromise: A Latent Variable Analysis of Ten Measures of Regime Type

Daniel Pemstein, Stephen A. Meserve, James Melton · Political Analysis · 2010 · 467 citations · Full text

Regime Analysis, New Measure, Democratic Compromise +17

The Endurance of National Constitutions

Tom Ginsburg, Zachary Elkins, James Melton · SSRN Electronic Journal · 2009 · 464 citations · Full text

Does De Jure Judicial Independence Really Matter?

James Melton, Tom Ginsburg · Journal of Law and Courts · 2014 · 224 citations

Judicial Politics, Legal Theory, Law +10

Absolutism and the Eighteenth-Century Origins of Compulsory Schooling in Prussia and Austria

John G. Gagliardo, James Melton · History of Education Quarterly · 1989 · 192 citations

Educational System, Historical Transition, Sociology Of Education +13

Does the Constitutional Amendment Rule Matter at All? Amendment Cultures and the Challenges of Measuring Amendment Difficulty

Tom Ginsburg, James Melton · SSRN Electronic Journal · 2014 · 124 citations · Full text

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