Do a law's policy implications affect beliefs about its constitutionality? An experimental test

Law and Human Behavior

Volumn 32, Issue 3, 2008, Pages 219-227

  Furgeson, Joshua R ^a   Babcock, Linda ^b   Shane, Peter M ^c  

^a Argosy Foundation   (United States)

^b CARNEGIE MELLON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Constitutional decisions; Judicial review; Legal decision making; Motivated reasoning; Policy preferences

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; COLLEGE STUDENT; CONTROLLED STUDY; EXPERIMENTAL TEST; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; LAW; LEGAL ASPECT; LEGAL EVIDENCE; MALE; ORGANIZATION AND MANAGEMENT; POLICY; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; TAX;

ADULT; ATTITUDE; CONSTITUTION AND BYLAWS; CULTURE; DECISION MAKING, ORGANIZATIONAL; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; PUBLIC POLICY; QUESTIONNAIRES; UNITED STATES;

EID: 43749120994     PISSN: 01477307     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10979-007-9102-z     Document Type: Article

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