"Estimating Judicial Ideal Points in the Spanish Supreme Court: The Case of Administrative Review" by Lucia Dalla Pellegrina

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Estimating Judicial Ideal Points in the Spanish Supreme Court: The Case of Administrative Review

International Review of Law and Economics (2017)

Lucia Dalla Pellegrina, University of Milano-Bicocca
Nuno Garoupa
Fernando Gómez Pomar

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Abstract

This paper presents an estimation of ideal points for the Justices of the Supreme Court of Spain in the specific area of administrative review for the period 2000-2008, controlling for dissent suppression effort. The estimated ideal points allow us to identify political clusters in the Supreme Court which seem inconsistent with the formal and traditional views that a career judiciary is politically not strongly aligned. At the same time, we find evidence that confirms a trend favoring consensus and dissent avoidance.

Keywords

judicial behavior,
empirical legal studies,
Spanish Supreme Court,
ideal point,
ideology,
dissent avoidance,
career judiciary

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Publication Date

2017

Citation Information

Lucia Dalla Pellegrina, Nuno Garoupa and Fernando Gómez Pomar. "Estimating Judicial Ideal Points in the Spanish Supreme Court: The Case of Administrative Review" International Review of Law and Economics Vol. 52 (2017) p. 16 - 28
Available at: http://works.bepress.com/nunogaroupa/126/