Ideological Influences on Decision Making in the Federal Judicial Hierarchy: An Empirical Assessment
Ideological Influences on Decision Making in the Federal Judicial Hierarchy: An Empirical Assessment
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意识形态对联邦司法体系决策的影响：实证评估
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2010
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J. Bowie
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Christopher Zorn;J. Bowie
司法政治学学者长期以来一直推测，影响司法决策的因素在司法等级制度的不同层次上有不同程度的作用。我们调查了我们所谓的“等级假设”：法官的政策偏好对他们的决定增加的影响，随着一个移动的司法等级。使用原始数据的案件决定在各级美国联邦法院，这使我们能够评估的影响，政策偏好的司法决策，而保持不变的影响，案件的具体因素，我们发现强有力的支持的论点，即意识形态和政策相关的影响联邦法官的决定是更大的司法层次较高的水平。
Scholars of judicial politics have long speculated that the factors influencing judicial decision making operate to varying degrees at different levels of the judicial hierarchy. We investigate what we term the “hierarchy postulate”: that the effect of judges’ policy preferences on their decisions increases as one moves up the judicial hierarchy. Using original data on cases decided at each level of U.S. federal courts, which allow us to evaluate the impact of policy preferences on judicial decision making while holding constant the influence of case-specific factors, we find robust support for the contention that ideological and policy-related influences on federal judges’ decisions are larger at higher levels of the judicial hierarchy.