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Judges' Role Orientations, Attitudes, and Decisions: An Interactive Model

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  • Gibson, James L.

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Despite almost two decades of behavioral research, our models relating the key variables in judicial decision making are incomplete and inadequate. In particular, the impact of two widely used variables, judges' attitudes and role orientations, is poorly understood. While there appears to be a consensus that attitudes and role orientations are important predictors of behavior, no research has been successful in developing a comprehensive model capable of predicting judges' behaviors. This article's objective is the development of a single model incorporating attitudes, role orientations, and decision-making behavior. While attitudes and role orientations taken singly explain insignificant amounts of the variation in behavior, an interactive model of attitudes and role orientations is shown to be extremely useful for understanding behavior. Although this research focuses on the sentencing decisions of Iowa trial court judges, the proposed model is potentially applicable to all instances of decision making.

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  • Gibson, James L., 1978. "Judges' Role Orientations, Attitudes, and Decisions: An Interactive Model," American Political Science Review, Cambridge University Press, vol. 72(3), pages 911-924, September.
    • Handle: RePEc:cup:apsrev:v:72:y:1978:i:03:p:911-924_15
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    1. James Meernik, 2003. "Victor's Justice or the Law? Judging And Punishing At The International Criminal Tribunal For The Former Yugoslavia," Journal of Conflict Resolution, Peace Science Society (International), vol. 47(2), pages 140-162, April.
    2. Jose Pina-Sánchez & John Paul Gosling, 2020. "Tackling selection bias in sentencing data analysis: a new approach based on a scale of severity," Quality & Quantity: International Journal of Methodology, Springer, vol. 54(3), pages 1047-1073, June.
    3. Timothy M. Shaughnessy, 2005. "A Preliminary Analysis of Campaign Contributions in Florida's Legislative and Judicial Elections," Journal of Private Enterprise, The Association of Private Enterprise Education, vol. 20(Spring 20), pages 43-67.
    4. Kobyliński Konrad, 2016. "The Polish Constitutional Court from an Attitudinal and Institutional Perspective Before and After the Constitutional Crisis of 2015–2016," Wroclaw Review of Law, Administration & Economics, Sciendo, vol. 6(2), pages 94-107, December.
    5. Verhagen, Mark D. & Yam, Julius, 2021. "The law of attraction: How similarity between judges and lawyers helps win cases in the Hong Kong Court of Final Appeal," International Review of Law and Economics, Elsevier, vol. 65(C).

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