The Supreme Court and the 2020 Census (1 of 3)
The Supreme Court’s decision on the 2020 Census and the citizenship question illustrates the deep and partisan divide on the Court. This first of two posts on the Supreme Court and the 2020 Census focuses solely on the justices’ opinions from both the conservative and liberal justices. It does so primarily by providing excerpts that contain the key points in the majority and dissenting opinions. The next post will deal with two earlier Court decisions on the census that illustrate the poltical nature of the census. .
Background
The Supreme Court reviewed the Federal District Court for the Southern District of New York’s decision on the citizenship question.… Read the rest
The Supreme Court and the Census (2 of 3)
As noted by Nathaniel Persily, “In the Constitution itself, the census is ‘about’ representation, money, and race, so we should not be surprised to learn that courtroom controversies over the census have persisted with respect to these three themes.” For a brief review of the history of census litigation and controversy see Swanson and Walashek. This post covers two recent Supreme Court cases that illustrate the political significance of the decennial census.
Context
A significant issue in court cases deals with how the census should count. The issue of how to count derives in part from the Census Bureau’s post-census estimation of the accuracy of the decennial enumeration.… Read the rest
The 2016 Election through a Leadership Theory Lens
Donna Ladkin, an American citizen, currently teaches at the Graduate School of Management at Plymouth University in Plymouth, United Kingdom. I find her leadership theory, perhaps best described as a framework for analyzing leadership, very useful. She is one of my favorite leadership scholars because of the way her “leadership moment” sees leadership. This post focuses on a recently published article entitled “How did that happen? Making sense of the 2016 US presidential election through the lens of the ‘leadership moment.'”
The leadership moment framework
Ladkin sees leadership as a dynamic and lived experience, not a set of traits or behavior.… Read the rest
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