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Judicial Preferences

Judicial Preferences is a theoretical construct in political science and legal studies that denotes the stable, underlying ideological predispositions or policy-oriented inclinations of individual judges, distinguishing them from legal formalism or strategic behavior by emphasizing their personal valuation of legal outcomes.

405

Publications

24.1K

Citations

463

Authors

240

Institutions

Publications per year

2017–2026

43

Variants

Judicial Ideology

Parents

Publications

405

The Supreme Court and the attitudinal model revisited

Choice Reviews Online · 2003 · 892 citations

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Ideological Values and the Votes of U.S. Supreme Court Justices

Jeffrey A. Segal, Albert D. Cover · American Political Science Review · 1989 · 735 citations

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Separation-of-Powers Games in the Positive Theory of Congress and Courts

Jeffrey A. Segal · American Political Science Review · 1997 · 396 citations

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Judicial Behavior under Political Constraints: Evidence from the European Court of Justice

Clifford J. Carrubba, Matthew J. Gabel, Charles Hankla · American Political Science Review · 2008 · 391 citations

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The Hierarchy of Justice: Testing a Principal-Agent Model of Supreme Court-Circuit Court Interactions

Donald R. Songer, Jeffrey A. Segal, Charles M. Cameron · American Journal of Political Science · 1994 · 377 citations

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Authors

463

  1. DR
    Donald R. Songer

    University of South Carolina, United States

    16 publications · 911 citations

    14

    h-index

  2. LE
    Lee Epstein

    Washington University in St. Louis, United States

    15 publications · 1.3K citations

    14

    h-index

  3. JA
    Jeffrey A. Segal

    Stony Brook University, United States

    9 publications · 2.2K citations

    9

    h-index

  4. AD
    Andrew D. Martin

    Washington University in St. Louis, United States

    9 publications · 703 citations

    9

    h-index

  5. NG
    Nuno Garoupa

    George Mason University, United States

    8 publications · 205 citations

    8

    h-index

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Institutions

240

  1. Washington University in St. Louis

    St Louis, United States

    23 h-index

    31 publications

    3.3K citations

  2. Emory University

    Atlanta, United States

    12 h-index

    15 publications

    1.5K citations

  3. George Washington University

    Washington, United States

    12 h-index

    15 publications

    1K citations

  4. Princeton University

    Princeton, United States

    11 h-index

    11 publications

    585 citations

  5. University of Chicago

    Chicago, United States

    11 h-index

    16 publications

    1.1K citations

  6. Harvard University Press

    Cambridge, United States

    11 h-index

    13 publications

    956 citations

  7. University of South Carolina

    Columbia, United States

    11 h-index

    18 publications

    739 citations

  8. University of California, Berkeley

    Berkeley, United States

    9 h-index

    12 publications

    1.2K citations

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Venues

  1. The Journal of Politics

    JP · 29 publications · 2.7K citations

    25

    h-index

  2. SSRN Electronic Journal

    Repository · 39 publications · 1.2K citations

    20

    h-index

  3. American Journal of Political Science

    AJPS · 20 publications · 3.2K citations

    19

    h-index

  4. Political Research Quarterly

    PRQ · 22 publications · 1K citations

    19

    h-index

  5. Law & Society Review

    18 publications · 1.2K citations

    15

    h-index

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