Party influence on judges runs through shared values more than direct political pressure.

Evidence

Direct response to the bidding of a political party is probably rare… . Indirect response to needs expressed by groups in the political system with which judges have been and may still be identified is more probable. The deepest and possibly unconscious level of response reflects consonance of the values of judges and of parties with which they have been affiliated, values which predispose judges both to associate themselves with a given party and to make decisions which favor that party. — G. Alan Tarr, Judicial Process and Judicial…, 433

Categorization

• XREF: A value-consonance account of judicial behavior consistent with the attitudinal model of judging often taught in public law courses, and contrasts with strategic/behavioral accounts. — connects to: Party influence on judges works through shared values, not direct commands — G. Alan Tarr, Judicial Process and Judicial…, 605; Generational political events shape judges’ values like those of other citizens — G. Alan Tarr, Judicial Process and Judicial…, 2575; The political perspective holds that judges’ attitudes determine their rulings. — G. Alan Tarr, Judicial Process and Judicial…, 2647 (+9 more)

Broader Connections

• Party influence on judges works through shared values, not direct commands #corroborates (0.97) — G. Alan Tarr, Judicial Process and Judicial…, 605
• Judges bring long-established political views to the bench because selection is itself political. #expands (0.85) — G. Alan Tarr, Judicial Process and Judicial…, 1301
• Political selection fills the courts with judges holding established partisan views #expands (0.85) — G. Alan Tarr, Judicial Process and Judicial…, 2571
• Generational political events shape judges’ values like those of other citizens #expands (0.82) — G. Alan Tarr, Judicial Process and Judicial…, 2575
• The political perspective holds that judges’ attitudes determine their rulings. #expands (0.80) — G. Alan Tarr, Judicial Process and Judicial…, 2647
• Judges act as temporally extended representatives of their appointing party. #complicates (0.80)
• Judicial decisions result from attitudes, role conceptions, and institutional constraints interacting together. #qualifies (0.78) — G. Alan Tarr, Judicial Process and Judicial…, 1286
• Party affiliation reliably predicts how state court judges decide cases #expands (0.76) — G. Alan Tarr, Judicial Process and Judicial…, 432
• Regional political culture shapes the attitudes judges bring to the bench #expands (0.75) — G. Alan Tarr, Judicial Process and Judicial…, 2576
• Lower court judges shaped by local politics can blunt a Supreme Court mandate. #complicates (0.74) — G. Alan Tarr, Judicial Process and Judicial…, 1545
• Judges rely on personal values when competing legal principles are evenly balanced #qualifies (0.72) — Ruggero J. Aldisert, Agatha D. Aldisert, Logic for Lawyers- A Guide to Clear…, 156