Document Type
Article
Publication Date
7-2012
Department
Political Science
Abstract
The literature on ideology and decision making offers conflicting expectations about how judges’ ideology should affect their votes in cases that raise many legal issues. Using cases from the U.S. Courts of Appeals, I examine the strength of ideology as a predictor of sincere voting in single and multi-issue cases and test whether the same effect for ideology can be seen for liberal and conservative judges. For all judges, ideology yields a larger effect as the number of issues increases; however, conservative judges are much more likely than liberal judges to cast sincere votes at all levels of complexity.
Original Publication Information
This is the peer reviewed version of the following article:
Moyer, Laura P. "The Role of Case Complexity in Judicial Decision Making." 2012. Law and Policy 34(3): 291-312.
which has been published in final form at http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/j.1467-9930.2012.00362.x. This article may be used for non-commercial purposes in accordance with Wiley Terms and Conditions for Self-Archiving.
ThinkIR Citation
Moyer, Laura P., "The role of case complexity in judicial decision making." (2012). Faculty and Staff Scholarship. 74.
https://ir.library.louisville.edu/faculty/74
DOI
10.1111/j.1467-9930.2012.00362.x
ORCID
0000-0002-5802-801X
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