"Freshman Effects" for Supreme Court Justices

Hagle, Timothy M.

doi:10.2307/2111547

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“…First, we control for the possibility that the freshman effect causes nonpolicy based votes. Some scholars have argued that new justices face a steep learning curve during which time their calculations are imprecise and their policy preferences still unstable (Hagle 1993). During this learning period, justices may be more likely to make errors.…”

Section: Jurisprudential Agenda Settingmentioning

confidence: 99%

Agenda Setting in the Supreme Court: The Collision of Policy and Jurisprudence

Black¹,

Owens²

2009

The Journal of Politics

101

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Section: Jurisprudential Agenda Settingmentioning

confidence: 99%

Agenda Setting in the Supreme Court: The Collision of Policy and Jurisprudence

Black¹,

Owens²

2009

The Journal of Politics

101

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“…However, this methodology is unable to provide evidence as to whether individual justices experience acclimation effects as a comparison between justices (one new to the bench, one more senior) does not establish variability over the length of a particular justice's tenure on the bench. A second line of research examines acclimation effects by comparing the voting behavior of individual justices during their first terms on the Court to later in their careers (e.g., Hagle 1993;Pacelle and Pauly 1996). By essentially "making each justice his or her own control" (Hagle 1993(Hagle : 1144, this strategy is able to provide evidence for or against acclimation effects for individual justices.…”

Section: The Justicesmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…A second line of research examines acclimation effects by comparing the voting behavior of individual justices during their first terms on the Court to later in their careers (e.g., Hagle 1993;Pacelle and Pauly 1996). By essentially "making each justice his or her own control" (Hagle 1993(Hagle : 1144, this strategy is able to provide evidence for or against acclimation effects for individual justices. However, the approach is nonetheless problematic as it implicitly hypothesizes directional differences in a justice's voting behavior manifest themselves over time.…”

Section: The Justicesmentioning

confidence: 99%

The Consistency of Judicial Choice

Collins

2008

The Journal of Politics

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Despite the fact that judicial scholars have developed reasonably well-specified models of the voting behavior of U.S. Supreme Court justices, little attention has been paid to influences on the consistency of the choices justices make. Aside from the methodological problems associated with failure to account for heteroskedasticity with regard to the justices' voting behavior, I argue that variance in judicial choice is also of theoretical import. Simply put, by uncovering influences on the stability of judicial choice, a more complete understanding of judicial decision making is provided. I explore this possibility by developing a theoretical framework that uncovers influences on the consistency of judicial choice which are then subjected to empirical validation. I show that the stability of judicial decision making is affected by attitudinal and strategic factors, as well as the Court's informational environment.

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“…Many scholars have suggested that the Chief Justice will favor expert writers and productive writers and tend to disfavor freshman (e.g., Brenner 1984, Brenner and Hagle 1996, Brenner and Palmer 1988, Brenner and Spaeth 1988, Hagle 1993, Howard 1968, Segal and Spaeth 1993, Maltzman and Wahlbeck 1996, Epstein and Knight 1998, Maltzman et al 2000, Wood et al 1998). The empirical evidence seems clearly to favor the hypotheses.…”

Section: Opinion Assignmentmentioning

confidence: 99%