Judicial Politics and Decisionmaking: A New Approach

dc.contributor.author	Guthrie, Chris
dc.contributor.author	Rachlinski, Jeffrey J.
dc.contributor.author	Wistrich, Andrew J.
dc.date.accessioned	2018-06-15T18:10:52Z
dc.date.available	2018-06-15T18:10:52Z
dc.date.issued	2017
dc.identifier.citation	70 Vanderbilt Law Review 2051 (2017)	en_US
dc.identifier.uri	http://hdl.handle.net/1803/8872
dc.description	article published in law review	en_US
dc.description.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."	en_US
dc.format.extent	1 PDF (58 pages)	en_US
dc.format.mimetype	application/pdf
dc.language.iso	en_US	en_US
dc.publisher	Vanderbilt Law Review	en_US
dc.subject	politics and judicial decisionmaking	en_US
dc.subject.lcsh	Judges	en_US
dc.title	Judicial Politics and Decisionmaking: A New Approach	en_US
dc.type	Article	en_US

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