Estimating the “Legislators in Robes”: Measuring Judges' Political Preferences

IF 0.7 4区社会学 Q3 Social Sciences

Justice System Journal Pub Date : 2022-08-05 DOI:10.1080/0098261X.2022.2102455

Maoz Rosenthal, Shai Talmor

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Abstract

Abstract In political systems where political parties are not the sole veto player on judicial nominations, the judicial selection process obfuscates judges' political preferences. However, activists, politicians, pundits, public opinion, and scholars try to assess these preferences because they are crucial for understanding the interaction between judges and political elites. We present a method for inferring judges' political ideology without prior knowledge of their political affiliations. The method we suggest uses the Manifesto Research Group on Political Representation's (MARPOR) coding scheme to assess judges' decisions within their political ideology contexts. We claim that this contextualization accounts for variance in judicial review patterns and associates the judges' reviews with their ideological positions. We apply our method to the Israeli High Court of Justice's judges' decisions and use our data to discuss some public quandaries regarding the court.

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估计“穿袍子的立法者”:衡量法官的政治偏好

在政党不是司法提名的唯一否决者的政治制度中，司法遴选过程模糊了法官的政治偏好。然而，活动家、政治家、权威人士、公众舆论和学者试图评估这些偏好，因为它们对于理解法官与政治精英之间的互动至关重要。我们提出了一种方法来推断法官的政治意识形态，而不需要事先了解他们的政治派别。我们建议的方法使用宣言研究小组的政治代表(MARPOR)编码方案来评估法官在其政治意识形态背景下的决定。我们认为，这种语境化解释了司法审查模式的差异，并将法官的审查与他们的意识形态立场联系起来。我们将我们的方法应用于以色列高等法院法官的判决，并使用我们的数据来讨论有关法院的一些公开困境。

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Justice System Journal LAW-

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0.90

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14.30%

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期刊介绍： The Justice System Journal is an interdisciplinary journal that publishes original research articles on all aspects of law, courts, court administration, judicial behavior, and the impact of all of these on public and social policy. Open as to methodological approaches, The Justice System Journal aims to use the latest in advanced social science research and analysis to bridge the gap between practicing and academic law, courts and politics communities. The Justice System Journal invites submission of original articles and research notes that are likely to be of interest to scholars and practitioners in the field of law, courts, and judicial administration, broadly defined. Articles may draw on a variety of research approaches in the social sciences. The journal does not publish articles devoted to extended analysis of legal doctrine such as a law review might publish, although short manuscripts analyzing cases or legal issues are welcome and will be considered for the Legal Notes section. The Justice System Journal was created in 1974 by the Institute for Court Management and is published under the auspices of the National Center for State Courts. The Justice System Journal features peer-reviewed research articles as well as reviews of important books in law and courts, and analytical research notes on some of the leading cases from state and federal courts. The journal periodically produces special issues that provide analysis of fundamental and timely issues on law and courts from both national and international perspectives.