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How Judges Judge
dc.contributor.author | Yung, Corey Rayburn | |
dc.date.accessioned | 2013-08-04T20:02:18Z | |
dc.date.available | 2013-08-04T20:02:18Z | |
dc.date.issued | 2011 | |
dc.identifier.citation | Corey Rayburn Yung, How Judges Judge, NW. U. L. REV. (forthcoming). | |
dc.identifier.uri | http://hdl.handle.net/1808/11623 | |
dc.description | Full-text available at SSRN. See link in this record. | |
dc.description.abstract | This Article offers a new approach to understanding judicial behavior which recognizes judicial heterogeneity, behavior along different dimensions, and interconnectedness among judges at different levels within the judiciary. As a result, it calls into question those fundamental premises of the predominant theories of judicial decisionmaking utilized by legal and political science scholars. This study utilizes a unique dataset of over 30,000 judicial votes from eleven federal courts of appeals in 2008. Utilizing independent measures of judicial activism, ideology, independence, and partisanship, statistical cluster analysis identifies nine distinct judging styles: Trailblazing, Consensus Building, Stalwart, Regulating, Steadfast, Collegial, Incrementalist, Minimalist, and Error Correcting. These judicial style types offer a fuller and more accurate account of judicial behavior than any of the prior models utilized by scholars. | |
dc.language.iso | en_US | |
dc.publisher | Northwestern University School of Law | |
dc.relation.hasversion | http://ssrn.com/abstract=1758710 | |
dc.subject | Empirical | |
dc.subject | Law and courts | |
dc.subject | Judges | |
dc.subject | Decisionmaking | |
dc.subject | Models | |
dc.subject | Courts of appeals | |
dc.subject | Federal courts | |
dc.title | How Judges Judge | |
dc.type | Article | |
kusw.kuauthor | Yung, Corey Rayburn | |
kusw.kudepartment | School of Law | |
kusw.oastatus | waivelicense | |
kusw.oapolicy | The license granted by the OA policy is waived for this item. | |
dc.rights.accessrights | openAccess |