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James Melton

JM

Statistics

Publications

19

Citations

2K

H-Index

17

Active since

1989

Affiliations

University of Chicago(Current)

Chicago Kent College of Law

The University of Texas at Austin

University College London

University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign

James Melton is an author at University of Chicago specializing in constitutional law, law, and constitutional theory.

Publications per year

1989–2016

19

Publications

19

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

Daniel Pemstein, Stephen A. Meserve, James Melton · Political Analysis · 2010 · 472 citations · Full text

Social Sciences, Political Science, Democratization +10

The Endurance of National Constitutions

Tom Ginsburg, Zachary Elkins, James Melton · SSRN Electronic Journal · 2009 · 466 citations · Full text

Law, Constitutional Law, Political Science +16

Does De Jure Judicial Independence Really Matter?

James Melton, Tom Ginsburg · Journal of Law and Courts · 2014 · 225 citations

Social Sciences, Public Law, Judicial Politics +14

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

Humanities, Education Policy, History +12

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 · 125 citations · Full text

Law, Constitutional Law, Political Science +16

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