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- Title
Judicial Politics and Decisionmaking: A New Approach.
- Authors
Rachlinski, Jeffrey J.; Wistrich, Andrew J.; Guthrie, Chris
- Abstract
In twenty-five different experiments conducted on over 2,200 judges, we assessed whether judges' political ideology influences their resolution of hypothetical cases. Generally, we found that the political ideology of the judge matters, but only very little. Across a range of bankruptcy, criminal, and civil cases, we found that the aggregate effect of political ideology is either nonexistent or amounts to roughly onequarter of a standard deviation. Overall, the results of our experiments suggest that judges are not "politicians in robes."
- Subjects
UNITED States; POLITICAL participation of judges; DECISION making in law; IDEOLOGY; LEGAL judgments; BANKRUPTCY; LEGAL motions; CRIMINAL law; CIVIL law; ACTIONS &; defenses (Law); PSYCHOLOGY; CRIMINAL law cases
- Publication
Vanderbilt Law Review, 2017, Vol 70, Issue 6, p2051
- ISSN
0042-2533
- Publication type
Article