Diversity, Deliberation, and Judicial Opinion Writing
Diversity, Deliberation, and Judicial Opinion Writing
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多元化、审议和司法意见书撰写
作者：
Susan B. Haire;Laura P. Moyer;S. Treier
学术界对多样性感兴趣的前提是代表机构有助于健全的决策过程。我们使用一种创新的意见内容衡量方法，通过分析美国上诉法院（1997-2002）的审议结果来检验这一前提。虽然单一女性或少数族裔的存在并不影响多数意见中对问题的关注，但与由三名白人男性组成的小组相比，由大多数妇女或少数族裔组成的小组提出的意见中的法律要点明显更多。
Underlying scholarly interest in diversity is the premise that a representative body contributes to robust decision-making processes. Using an innovative measure of opinion content, we examine this premise by analyzing deliberative outputs in the US courts of appeals (1997–2002). While the presence of a single female or minority did not affect the attention to issues in the majority opinion, panels composed of a majority of women or minorities produced opinions with significantly more points of law compared to panels with three Caucasian males.