More than Politics: Ability and Ideology in the British Appellate Committee
研究提出一个同时考虑法官能力和意识形态的模型，用于分析英国上诉委员会的司法决策，发现该模型比纯意识形态模型拟合更好，并探讨了偏好与能力的相对作用。
We argue that a model of judicial behavior that accounts for differences in justices’ ability and ideology provides a fruitful alternative for the empirical analysis of judicial decision-making around the world, and illustrate this by focusing on the case of the United Kingdom. We show that the model explains the decisions of the Lords of Appeal remarkably well, and improves the fit of a purely ideological model. We use our estimates to tackle previously unaddressed questions about the relative role of justices’ preferences and ability in the Appellate Committee.