Legal Interpretation and Intuitions of Public Policy

Ideology, Psychology, and Law

Volumn , Issue , 2012, Pages

  Furgeson, Joshua ^a   Babcock, Linda ^b  

^a MATHEMATICA POLICY RESEARCH   (United States)

^b CARNEGIE MELLON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Constitutional interpretation; Debiasing; Ideology; Judicial decision; Legal decision making; Motivated reasoning

Indexed keywords

EID: 84921716333     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199737512.003.0026     Document Type: Chapter

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