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This article argues that judges suppress dissent when it is costly to do so, and that the cost of dissent depends on the political dimension of the issue broached. It contends that judges who disagree may nevertheless try to safeguard integrity and legitimacy in political disputes by presenting...
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We present a new measure of judicial ideology based on judicial hiring behavior. Specifically, we utilize the ideology … of the law clerks hired by federal judges to estimate the ideology of the judges themselves. These Clerk-Based Ideology … (CBI) scores complement existing measures of judicial ideology in several ways. First, CBI scores can be estimated for …
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independence of the judiciary and demonstrated its utility in a large cross-section of countries. The indicator has been widely …
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