Dissertation Research: Civil Justice Culture and ADR: An Exploratory View Through a Neo-Institutional Lens

大多数关于民事法院的社会科学研究都集中在案件量，纠纷形成，法院改革和选定的系统行为者，如律师。迄今为止，还没有一项研究将民事司法的行为者、机构和程序作为一个系统来关注。 本文试图填补这一空白，在文学与民事法院的程序和文化的新制度研究。这种理论框架强调规范、规则和组织作为对个人行为的约束的重要性。它着重于三个问题。制度变迁对民事法院有何影响？民政系统行为者和机构如何互动？是否有独特的民事司法文化？为了解决这些问题，Co-P.I.将分析从一个单一的格鲁吉亚法院系统（霍尔县）的定量和定性数据。这个网站是适当的，因为它具有国家最全面的替代争端解决方案，其中有大量的案件，并为不同的人口。 将随机抽取六年（1989-1994年）的病例记录进行定量分析。 它们将被编码为案件类型，参与者，程序（例如动议和听证会），处理时间，处置类型和结果，并进行分析，以产生一般民事和家庭关系诉讼的统计概况以及案件处理时间，处置类型，结果和其他变量的多变量分析。 研究的定性部分将包括精英访谈和直接观察民事法院的程序。

9634453 Talarico Most social scientific research on civil courts has focused on caseloads, dispute formation, court reforms and selected system actors such as attorneys. No study to date has focused on the actors, institutions, and process of civil justice as a system. This dissertation seeks to fill this gap in the literature with a neo-institutional study of civil court processes and culture. This theoretical framework emphasizes the importance of norms, rules, and organizations as constraints on individual behavior. It focuses on three questions. What is the effect of institutional change on civil courts? How do civil system actors and institutions interact? Is there a distinctive civil justice culture? To address these questions, the co-P.I. will analyze both quantitative and qualitative data from a single Georgia court system (Hall County). This site is appropriate because it features the state's most comprehensive alternate dispute resolution program, which has a substantial caseload and serves a diverse population. Case records for the quantitative portion of the analysis will be randomly drawn for six years (1989-1994). They will be coded for case type, participants, procedures (e.g. motions and hearings), processing time, disposition type, and outcome and analyzed to produce a statistical profile of general civil and domestic relations litigation and a multivariate analysis of case processing time, disposition type, outcome, and other variables over time. The qualitative portion of the research will consist of elite interviews and direct observation of civil court processes.