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CompLaw: A Coding Protocol and Database for the Comparative Study of Judicial Review CompLaw:司法审查比较研究的编码协议和数据库
IF 1.4 Q2 Social Sciences Pub Date : 2024-05-24 DOI: 10.1017/jlc.2024.4
Matthew Gabel, Clifford J. Carrubba, Gretchen Helmke, Andrew D. Martin, Jeffrey K. Staton, Dalston Ward, Jeffrey Ziegler
A growing theoretical literature identifies how the process of constitutional review shapes judicial decision-making, legislative behavior, and even the constitutionality of legislation and executive actions. However, the empirical interrogation of these theoretical arguments is limited by the absence of a common protocol for coding constitutional review decisions across courts and time. We introduce such a coding protocol and database (CompLaw) of rulings by 42 constitutional courts. To illustrate the value of CompLaw, we examine a heretofore untested empirical implication about how review timing relates to rulings of unconstitutionality (Ward and Gabel 2019). First, we conduct a nuanced analysis of rulings by the French Constitutional Council over a 13-year period. We then examine the relationship between review timing and strike rates with a set of national constitutional courts in one year. Our data analysis highlights the benefits and flexibility of the CompLaw coding protocol for scholars of judicial review.
越来越多的理论文献指出了宪法审查程序如何影响司法决策、立法行为,甚至立法和行政行为的合宪性。然而,由于缺乏对不同法院和不同时间的宪法审查判决进行编码的通用协议,对这些理论论点的实证研究受到了限制。我们引入了这样一个编码协议和 42 个宪法法院裁决的数据库(CompLaw)。为了说明 CompLaw 的价值,我们研究了一个迄今未经验证的经验含义,即审查时间与违宪裁决之间的关系(Ward 和 Gabel,2019 年)。首先,我们对法国宪法委员会 13 年来的裁决进行了细致分析。然后,我们以一组国家宪法法院为研究对象,考察了审查时机与一年内罢工率之间的关系。我们的数据分析凸显了 CompLaw 编码协议对司法审查学者的益处和灵活性。
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Lacking Legislative Experience: The Impact of Changing Justice Backgrounds on Judicial Review 缺乏立法经验:不断变化的司法背景对司法审查的影响
IF 1.4 Q2 Social Sciences Pub Date : 2024-05-10 DOI: 10.1017/jlc.2024.3
Rob Robinson
Though once commonplace, presidents no longer nominate individuals with legislative experience to the U.S. Supreme Court. What difference does this shift make? Drawing on theories that connect judicial background characteristics to decision-making, I test whether legislative background impacts federal judicial review. Using nonparametric matching and almost 150 years of judicial review decisions, I find that, while such experience decreases the likelihood of striking down a law, the effect is small. By contrast, partisanship has a much stronger impact, with justices more likely to strike down laws when the enacting Congressional majority is a different party from their appointing president.
尽管曾经司空见惯,但总统不再提名具有立法经验的人士进入美国最高法院。这种转变会带来什么不同?借鉴将司法背景特征与决策联系起来的理论,我检验了立法背景是否会影响联邦司法审查。利用非参数匹配和近 150 年的司法审查判决,我发现,虽然立法经验会降低否决法律的可能性,但影响很小。相比之下,党派背景的影响要大得多,当颁布法律的国会多数党与其任命总统的党派不同时,大法官更有可能否决法律。
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African Americans’ Willingness to Extend Legitimacy to the Police: Connections to Identities and Experiences in the Post-George Floyd Era 非裔美国人对警察合法性的意愿:后乔治-弗洛伊德时代与身份和经历的联系
IF 1.4 Q2 Social Sciences Pub Date : 2024-04-08 DOI: 10.1017/jlc.2023.20
James L. Gibson
Numerous benefits materialize when people extend legitimacy to institutions; consequently, many investigations of the legitimacy of the police have been reported. However, several critical issues remain unanswered. My paper’s purpose is to revisit the question of willingness to grant police legitimacy, focusing on a nationally representative sample of African Americans. I test hypotheses connecting police legitimacy with experiences with unfair treatment by legal authorities, ingroup attachments, attitudes toward systemic racism, and engagement with Black Lives Matter. My findings reveal significant connections between experience with discrimination, ingroup attachments, and beliefs about systemic racism but little relationship between BLM attitudes and police legitimacy.
当人们赋予机构合法性时,就会带来许多好处;因此,许多关于警察合法性的调查报告都有提及。然而,有几个关键问题仍未得到解答。我的论文旨在重新审视人们是否愿意赋予警察合法性的问题,重点关注具有全国代表性的非裔美国人样本。我检验了将警察合法性与受到法律当局不公平待遇的经历、内群体依附、对系统性种族主义的态度以及对黑人生命事件的参与联系起来的假设。我的研究结果揭示了歧视经历、内群体依附和系统性种族主义信念之间的重要联系,但黑人生命运动的态度与警察合法性之间的关系不大。
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Are Judges on Per Curiam Courts Ideological? Evidence from the European Court of Justice 法官是否具有意识形态倾向?来自欧洲法院的证据
IF 1.4 Q2 Social Sciences Pub Date : 2024-03-28 DOI: 10.1017/jlc.2023.17
Sivaram Cheruvu
Institutional designers of judiciaries often want to provide the appearance of impartiality. As a result, many collegial courts issue per curiam rulings in which judges’ votes are not public. An extensive scholarship, however, provides evidence that ideology and mechanisms of retention affect judicial decision-making. Do per curiam rulings actively mitigate or provide cover for ideological and career-oriented judicial decision-making? I argue that – when serving as the rapporteur (opinion-writer) – a judge on a civil law per curiam court can steer their panel towards the outcome their appointer prefers. When their appointing government turns over, nonetheless, a judge is not compelled to change their decision-making to be in line with their new government, as per curiam rulings protect them from retaliation. An analysis of decisions at the Court of Justice of the European Union provides evidence for this account.
司法机构的制度设计者往往希望提供公正的表象。因此,许多合议制法院都会发布不公开法官投票的 "照本宣科 "裁决。然而,大量的学术研究证明,意识形态和留任机制会影响司法决策。临时裁决是否会积极缓解或掩盖意识形态和职业导向的司法决策?我认为--在担任报告人(意见撰写人)时--民法法庭的法官可以引导其合议庭朝着其任命者所希望的结果发展。然而,当其任命的政府换届时,法官并不会被迫改变其决策以与新政府保持一致,因为 "法庭上的裁决 "可以保护他们免遭报复。对欧盟法院判决的分析为这一观点提供了证据。
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Diffuse Support, Partisanship, and the Electoral Relevance of the Supreme Court 分散支持、党派纷争与最高法院的选举相关性
IF 1.4 Q2 Social Sciences Pub Date : 2024-03-14 DOI: 10.1017/jlc.2024.1
Nicholas T. Davis, Matthew P. Hitt
Despite the Supreme Court’s lack of direct electoral accountability, voters may factor its outputs into their voting decisions because elected representatives can affect the Court’s powers and composition. In this paper, we uncover an ironic predicament that faces candidates running on reforming this institution. Citizens who possess higher levels of diffuse support for the Court are more likely to rank it as an important factor in their voting logic. But because this diffuse support has sorted along partisan lines, candidate messaging about reform may not motivate partisans who have lost support for the Court because they view it as less important than other pressing issues. Thus, although Democrats are sympathetic to reform, Democratic candidates may have weak incentives to promote reform given low levels of diffuse support among their constituents. This dynamic mitigates against the possibility of a public or congressional backlash against the Court, preserving the status quo.
尽管最高法院不直接对选举负责,但选民在投票决定时可能会考虑到最高法院的产出,因为民选代表可以影响最高法院的权力和组成。在本文中,我们揭示了以改革该机构为竞选目标的候选人所面临的具有讽刺意味的困境。对法院拥有较高分散支持度的公民更有可能将法院列为其投票逻辑中的一个重要因素。但由于这种分散支持是按党派划分的,因此候选人发出的改革信息可能无法激励那些因认为法院不如其他紧迫问题重要而失去对法院支持的党派人士。因此,尽管民主党人对改革持同情态度,但由于其选民的分散支持水平较低,民主党候选人推动改革的动力可能较弱。这种动力减轻了公众或国会对法院反弹的可能性,从而维持了现状。
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Institutional Design and the Predictability of Judicial Interruptions at Oral Argument 制度设计与口头辩论中司法中断的可预测性
IF 1.4 Q2 Social Sciences Pub Date : 2024-02-05 DOI: 10.1017/jlc.2023.23
Tonja Jacobi, Patrick Leslie, Zoe Robinson
Examining oral argument in the Australian High Court and comparing to the U.S. Supreme Court, this article shows that institutional design drives judicial interruptive behavior. Many of the same individual- and case-level factors predict oral argument behavior. Notably, despite orthodoxy of the High Court as “apolitical,” ideology strongly predicts interruptions, just as in the United States. Yet, important divergent institutional design features between the two apex courts translate into meaningful behavioral differences, with the greater power of the Chief Justice resulting in differences in interruptions. Finally, gender effects are lower and only identifiable with new methodological techniques we develop and apply.
本文研究了澳大利亚高等法院的口头辩论,并将其与美国最高法院进行了比较,结果表明,制度设计是司法中断行为的驱动因素。许多相同的个人和案件层面的因素都能预测口头辩论行为。值得注意的是,尽管人们正统地认为高等法院是 "非政治性的",但意识形态强烈地预测了中断行为,这一点与美国的情况相同。然而,两个最高法院在制度设计上的重要差异也转化成了有意义的行为差异,首席大法官的更大权力导致了中断次数的差异。最后,性别效应较低,只有通过我们开发和应用的新方法技术才能识别。
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A Matter of Opinion? How Unexpected Opinion Authors Influence Support for Supreme Court Decisions 观点问题?意外的意见作者如何影响对最高法院判决的支持
IF 1.4 Q2 Social Sciences Pub Date : 2024-02-05 DOI: 10.1017/jlc.2023.15
Jonathan M. King, Jessica A. Schoenherr
Examples abound of Supreme Court justices writing opinions because their ideological preferences or identity characteristics run counter to case outcomes, like when devoted Methodist and Nixon appointee Harry Blackmun wrote the opinion codifying abortion rights in Roe v. Wade (1973). These stories suggest that in some controversial cases, the justices ask such incongruent justices to explain decisions because they believe those justices can underscore an opinion’s legal soundness and increase support for it. Does it work? We asked participants in two survey experiments to read about a pro-abortion or pro-death penalty ruling written by justices of differing ideologies and genders, and then we asked them to respond to the ruling. Their responses indicate that deploying identity-incongruent justices can influence responses, but not the way the justices expect. We find that incongruent opinion writers can reduce partisan differences in support for a Court decision but do not broadly increase public.
最高法院大法官因其意识形态偏好或身份特征与案件结果背道而驰而撰写意见书的例子比比皆是,比如在《罗伊诉韦德案》(Roe v. Wade,1973 年)中,虔诚的卫理公会成员、尼克松任命的哈里-布莱克门(Harry Blackmun)撰写了将堕胎权编入法典的意见书。这些故事表明,在一些有争议的案件中,大法官们会请这些不一致的大法官来解释判决,因为他们相信这些大法官可以强调意见书的法律合理性,并增加对意见书的支持。这样做有用吗?我们在两项调查实验中要求参与者阅读由不同意识形态和性别的大法官撰写的支持堕胎或支持死刑的判决,然后要求他们对判决做出回应。他们的回答表明,使用身份不一致的大法官会影响人们的回答,但影响的方式并不是大法官们所期望的。我们发现,不一致的意见撰写者可以减少支持法院判决的党派差异,但不会广泛地增加公众支持。
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Institutional Design and the Predictability of Judicial Interruptions at Oral Argument 制度设计与口头辩论中司法中断的可预测性
IF 1.4 Q2 Social Sciences Pub Date : 2024-02-05 DOI: 10.1017/jlc.2023.23
Tonja Jacobi, Patrick Leslie, Zoe Robinson
Examining oral argument in the Australian High Court and comparing to the U.S. Supreme Court, this article shows that institutional design drives judicial interruptive behavior. Many of the same individual- and case-level factors predict oral argument behavior. Notably, despite orthodoxy of the High Court as “apolitical,” ideology strongly predicts interruptions, just as in the United States. Yet, important divergent institutional design features between the two apex courts translate into meaningful behavioral differences, with the greater power of the Chief Justice resulting in differences in interruptions. Finally, gender effects are lower and only identifiable with new methodological techniques we develop and apply.
本文研究了澳大利亚高等法院的口头辩论,并将其与美国最高法院进行了比较,结果表明,制度设计是司法中断行为的驱动因素。许多相同的个人和案件层面的因素都能预测口头辩论行为。值得注意的是,尽管人们正统地认为高等法院是 "非政治性的",但意识形态强烈地预测了中断行为,这一点与美国的情况相同。然而,两个最高法院在制度设计上的重要差异也转化成了有意义的行为差异,首席大法官的更大权力导致了中断次数的差异。最后,性别效应较低,只有通过我们开发和应用的新方法技术才能识别。
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A Matter of Opinion? How Unexpected Opinion Authors Influence Support for Supreme Court Decisions 观点问题?意外的意见作者如何影响对最高法院判决的支持
IF 1.4 Q2 Social Sciences Pub Date : 2024-02-05 DOI: 10.1017/jlc.2023.15
Jonathan M. King, Jessica A. Schoenherr
Examples abound of Supreme Court justices writing opinions because their ideological preferences or identity characteristics run counter to case outcomes, like when devoted Methodist and Nixon appointee Harry Blackmun wrote the opinion codifying abortion rights in Roe v. Wade (1973). These stories suggest that in some controversial cases, the justices ask such incongruent justices to explain decisions because they believe those justices can underscore an opinion’s legal soundness and increase support for it. Does it work? We asked participants in two survey experiments to read about a pro-abortion or pro-death penalty ruling written by justices of differing ideologies and genders, and then we asked them to respond to the ruling. Their responses indicate that deploying identity-incongruent justices can influence responses, but not the way the justices expect. We find that incongruent opinion writers can reduce partisan differences in support for a Court decision but do not broadly increase public.
最高法院大法官因其意识形态偏好或身份特征与案件结果背道而驰而撰写意见书的例子比比皆是,比如在《罗伊诉韦德案》(Roe v. Wade,1973 年)中,虔诚的卫理公会成员、尼克松任命的哈里-布莱克门(Harry Blackmun)撰写了将堕胎权编入法典的意见书。这些故事表明,在一些有争议的案件中,大法官们会请这些不一致的大法官来解释判决,因为他们相信这些大法官可以强调意见书的法律合理性,并增加对意见书的支持。这样做有用吗?我们在两项调查实验中要求参与者阅读由不同意识形态和性别的大法官撰写的支持堕胎或支持死刑的判决,然后要求他们对判决做出回应。他们的回答表明,使用身份不一致的大法官会影响人们的回答,但影响的方式并不是大法官们所期望的。我们发现,不一致的意见撰写者可以减少支持法院判决的党派差异,但不会广泛地增加公众支持。
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The Effects of Decision Fatigue on Judicial Behavior: A Study of Arkansas Traffic Court Outcomes 决策疲劳对司法行为的影响:阿肯色州交通法庭结果研究
IF 1.4 Q2 Social Sciences Pub Date : 2024-01-31 DOI: 10.1017/jlc.2023.21
Rahul Hemrajani, Tony Hobert
Judges who hear multiple cases a day may become exhausted by the time later cases are heard, increasing susceptibility to cognitive depletion, yet the role of workload fatigue in decision-making from hearing cases has rarely been tested in the U.S. One problem is the lack of public data—most U.S. courts do not maintain time-stamped records of case hearings. Using an original dataset of all traffic cases heard in Pulaski County, Arkansas in 2019 and 2020, we examine whether decision fatigue affects case outcomes. We find that charges are less likely to be dismissed in arraignment hearings at the end of a court session than in those at the beginning. This pattern, however, does not hold for trial hearings, suggesting that the effects of fatigue may be context-specific. We suggest policy recommendations to mitigate the effects of decision fatigue in lower courts—courts having the most contact with citizens.
一天审理多起案件的法官在审理后面的案件时可能会精疲力竭,从而增加认知耗竭的易感性,但在美国,工作量疲劳在审理案件决策中的作用却很少得到检验。利用阿肯色州普拉斯基县 2019 年和 2020 年审理的所有交通案件的原始数据集,我们研究了决策疲劳是否会影响案件结果。我们发现,在法庭开庭结束时的提讯听证会上,指控被驳回的可能性要低于开庭时的提讯听证会。然而,这种模式在审判听证中并不成立,这表明疲劳的影响可能因具体情况而异。我们提出了一些政策建议,以减轻下级法院--与公民接触最多的法院--决策疲劳的影响。
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