@article{27946,
  author = {Matias Iaryczower and Gabriel Katz},
  title = {More than Politics: Ability and Ideology in the British Appellate Committee},
  abstract = {<p>We argue that a model of judicial behavior that accounts for dierences in justices{\textquoteright}\&nbsp;ability and ideology provides a fruitful alternative for the empirical analysis of judicial\&nbsp;decision-making around the world, and illustrate this by focusing on the case of the\&nbsp;UK.We show that the model explains the decisions of the Lords of Appeal remarkably\&nbsp;well, and improves the t of a purely ideological model. We use our estimates to tackle\&nbsp;previously unaddressed questions about the relative role of justices{\textquoteright} preferences and\&nbsp;ability in the Appellate Committee.</p>
},
  year = {2016},
  journal = {Journal of Law, Economics, \& Organization},
  volume = {32},
  pages = {61-93},
  language = {eng},
}