Overview: Provides a theoretically-grounded and empirically-tested examination of the effect that judges‘ role orientations have on their decision-making.Analyzes the results of a nationwide survey of the entirThis book uses role theory to analyze the judicial decisions made by state supreme court judges. Grounded in the fields of anthropology, business management, psychology, and sociology, role theory holds that, for each position an individual occupies in society, he or she creates a role orientation, or a belief about the limits of proper behavior. Judicial role orientation is conceptualiz
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