Let Me Be the Judge: Ideology, Identity, and Judicial Selection

IF 3.2 Q1 POLITICAL SCIENCE Journal of Experimental Political Science Pub Date : 2022-06-28 DOI:10.1017/XPS.2022.10

Lina M. Eriksson, Kåre Vernby

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Abstract

Abstract A substantial body of research has found biased recruitment in a variety of societal spheres. We study selection in the judiciary, a domain that has received less attention than the economic and political spheres. Our field experiment took place in the midst of a Swedish government campaign encouraging ordinary citizens to contact local parties, which are responsible for recruiting lay judges (jurors) and put themselves forward as lay judge candidates. Parties’ responsiveness to citizen requests does not seem to favor their own sympathizers, does not vary at all with signals of gender, and is only marginally affected by ethnicity and age. Given the potential importance of ideology and identity in judicial decision-making, the finding that there is little bias with respect to these factors at this first stage of the recruitment process is reassuring from the perspective of impartiality.

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《让我当法官:意识形态、身份与司法选择》

摘要大量研究发现，在各种社会领域招聘都存在偏见。我们研究司法领域的选拔，这一领域比经济和政治领域受到的关注要少。我们的实地实验是在瑞典政府鼓励普通公民联系当地政党的运动中进行的，这些政党负责招募非专业法官（陪审员），并提出自己是非专业法官候选人。缔约方对公民请求的反应似乎不利于自己的同情者，与性别信号完全不同，而且只受种族和年龄的轻微影响。鉴于意识形态和身份在司法决策中的潜在重要性，在招聘过程的第一阶段，对这些因素几乎没有偏见，这一发现从公正性的角度来看是令人放心的。

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Journal of Experimental Political Science Social Sciences-Sociology and Political Science

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5.10

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8.30%

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期刊介绍： The Journal of Experimental Political Science (JEPS) features cutting-edge research that utilizes experimental methods or experimental reasoning based on naturally occurring data. We define experimental methods broadly: research featuring random (or quasi-random) assignment of subjects to different treatments in an effort to isolate causal relationships in the sphere of politics. JEPS embraces all of the different types of experiments carried out as part of political science research, including survey experiments, laboratory experiments, field experiments, lab experiments in the field, natural and neurological experiments. We invite authors to submit concise articles (around 4000 words or fewer) that immediately address the subject of the research. We do not require lengthy explanations regarding and justifications of the experimental method. Nor do we expect extensive literature reviews of pros and cons of the methodological approaches involved in the experiment unless the goal of the article is to explore these methodological issues. We expect readers to be familiar with experimental methods and therefore to not need pages of literature reviews to be convinced that experimental methods are a legitimate methodological approach. We will consider longer articles in rare, but appropriate cases, as in the following examples: when a new experimental method or approach is being introduced and discussed or when novel theoretical results are being evaluated through experimentation. Finally, we strongly encourage authors to submit manuscripts that showcase informative null findings or inconsistent results from well-designed, executed, and analyzed experiments.