eprintid: 22409 rev_number: 40 eprint_status: archive userid: 1482 importid: 105 dir: disk0/00/02/24/09 datestamp: 2016-10-03 10:31:20 lastmod: 2024-05-23 08:13:58 status_changed: 2024-05-23 08:13:58 type: monograph metadata_visibility: show creators_name: Berdejo, Carlos creators_name: Chen, Daniel L. creators_idrefppn: 241586631 creators_halaffid: 1002422;441569 title: Electoral Cycles Among U.S. Courts of Appeals Judges ispublished: pub subjects: subjects_ECO abstract: We find field evidence for what experimental studies have documented regarding the contexts and characteristics that make individuals more susceptible to priming. Just before U.S. Presidential elections, judges on the U.S. Courts of Appeals double the rate at which they dissent and vote along partisan lines. Increases are accentuated for judges with less experience and in ideologically polarized environments. During periods of national reconciliation—wartime, for example—judges suppress dissents, again, especially by judges with less experience and in ideologically polarized environments. We show the dissent rate increases gradually from 6% to nearly 12% in the quarter before an election and returns immediately to 6% after the election. That highly experienced professionals making common law precedent can be politically primed raises questions about the perceived impartiality of the judiciary. We cannot rule out the possibility that judges—who profess to be unbiased—are intentionally biased, which also raises the question of intentional bias of professionals who claim to be unbiased. date: 2016-09 date_type: published publisher: TSE Working Paper official_url: http://tse-fr.eu/pub/31028 faculty: tse divisions: tse language: en has_fulltext: TRUE view_date_year: 2016 full_text_status: public monograph_type: working_paper series: TSE Working Paper volume: 16-704 place_of_pub: Toulouse pages: 19 institution: Université Toulouse 1 Capitole department: Toulouse school of economics book_title: TSE Working Paper oai_identifier: oai:tse-fr.eu:31028 harvester_local_overwrite: oai_set harvester_local_overwrite: department harvester_local_overwrite: faculty harvester_local_overwrite: place_of_pub harvester_local_overwrite: pages harvester_local_overwrite: institution harvester_local_overwrite: creators_idrefppn harvester_local_overwrite: pending harvester_local_overwrite: note harvester_local_overwrite: creators_halaffid oai_lastmod: 2024-05-06T07:13:27Z oai_set: tse oai_set: ut1c site: ut1 citation: Berdejo, Carlos and Chen, Daniel L. (2016) Electoral Cycles Among U.S. Courts of Appeals Judges. TSE Working Paper, n. 16-704, Toulouse document_url: https://publications.ut-capitole.fr/id/eprint/22409/1/Electoral_Cycles_Among_US_Courts_of_Appeals_Judges_JLE.pdf