Zorn: Decision Making in the Federal Judicial Hierarchy: Data Toward A Theory

Professor Dr. Christopher Zorn of Penn State University has posted slides of his presentation entitled Decision Making in the Federal Judicial Hierarchy: Data Toward A Theory , given 1 March 2014 at CAPR 2014: Annual Conference of the Center for American Political Responsiveness, on the theme, Politics in the Judicial Hierarchy , at Penn State University’s Department of Political Science.

The presentation discusses “the Hierarchy Postulate: [that] the influence of judges’ policy preferences on their decision making increases as one moves higher up the judicial hierarchy,” and sets out results of a statistical analysis of a large data set of U.S. federal court decisions testing the postulate.

HT @prisonrodeo

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