eprintid: 49356 rev_number: 8 eprint_status: archive userid: 1482 importid: 105 dir: disk0/00/04/93/56 datestamp: 2024-05-02 07:17:25 lastmod: 2024-05-02 07:24:00 status_changed: 2024-05-02 07:17:25 type: article metadata_visibility: show creators_name: Chen, Daniel L. creators_name: Michaeli, Moti creators_name: Spiro, Daniel creators_idrefppn: 241586631 creators_halaffid: 1002422;441569 title: Non-confrontational extremists ispublished: pub subjects: subjects_ECO abstract: In many contexts individuals are subject to norms and decisions they disagree with ideologically. What is the effect of regularly being in an ideological minority on the propensity to confront majority norms and decisions? We study this in an ideologically-salient field setting – US appeals courts – using exogenous predictors of ideology and random assignment of judges. We find that ideological interaction silences extremists: Judges who are ideologically extreme relative to their peers are less confrontational – dissent less often – than other judges, despite shaping case outcomes the least. Considering many mechanisms, we find that a model of peer pressure where agents perceive concave ideological costs can explain the observations. date: 2023-08 date_type: published publisher: Elsevier id_number: 10.1016/j.euroecorev.2023.104521 faculty: tse divisions: tse language: en has_fulltext: FALSE doi: 10.1016/j.euroecorev.2023.104521 view_date_year: 2023 full_text_status: none publication: European Economic Review volume: vol.157 place_of_pub: Amsterdam refereed: TRUE issn: 0014-2921 oai_identifier: oai:tse-fr.eu:129313 harvester_local_overwrite: volume harvester_local_overwrite: pending harvester_local_overwrite: creators_idrefppn harvester_local_overwrite: creators_halaffid harvester_local_overwrite: publisher harvester_local_overwrite: place_of_pub harvester_local_overwrite: official_url harvester_local_overwrite: number oai_lastmod: 2024-04-30T09:02:48Z oai_set: tse site: ut1 citation: Chen, Daniel L. , Michaeli, Moti and Spiro, Daniel (2023) Non-confrontational extremists. European Economic Review, vol.157.