Judge Misconduct and Perceptions of a Threat to Rights

• In Event: All About Judges

Brief Overview

We use a survey experiment that introduces a judge who has engaged in misconduct to measure if the type of misconduct will influence attitudes on whether the judge poses a threat to the rights of women, racial minorities, and ethnic minorities.

Authors

• Melissa N. Baker, The University of Texas at El Paso

• Kayla Canelo, The University of Texas at Arlington