Published in:Harvard Law School Program on Risk Regulation Research Paper ; No. 08-22
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1 Online-Ressource (11 p)
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Not determined
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10.2139/ssrn.1111865
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Nach Informationen von SSRN wurde die ursprüngliche Fassung des Dokuments March 20, 2008 erstellt
Description:
Recent scholarship in law and political science identifies ideology as a major determinant of judicial decisionmaking. This essay suggests the possibility that much if not all the evidence this work rests on might be attributed to the influence of cultural cognition, a set of mechanisms that motivate individuals to conform their factual perceptions to their values. Such an account has the potential to furnish a psychologically richer description of how competing values generate judicial dissensus, a more informed normative appraisal of such dissensus, and a more tractable set of prescriptions for reducing it