Abstract

We investigate the role that political ideology plays in the selection process for articles in law reviews. To do so, we match data on the political ideology of student editors from 15 top law reviews from 1990 to 2005 to data on the political ideology of the authors of accepted articles. We find that law reviews with a higher share of conservative editors accept a higher share of articles written by conservative authors. We then investigate potential explanations for this pattern. One possibility is that editors have a preference for publishing articles written by authors that share their ideology. Another possibility is that editors are objectively better at assessing the contribution of articles written by authors that share their ideology. We find evidence that the latter explanation drives the relationship between editor and author ideology.

中文翻译：

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政治思想与法律评论选拔过程

摘要

我们调查政治意识形态在法律评论文章的选择过程中所扮演的角色。为此，我们将1990年至2005年的15个顶级法律评论的学生编辑的政治思想观念数据与被接受文章的作者的政治思想观念数据进行匹配。我们发现，保守派编辑占较高比例的法律评论接受了保守派作者撰写的文章所占比例较高。然后，我们调查这种模式的潜在解释。一种可能性是编辑者偏爱发布具有共同思想的作者撰写的文章。另一个可能性是，编辑在客观上可以更好地评估具有共同思想的作者撰写的文章的贡献。我们发现有证据表明，后一种解释驱动了编辑者和作者意识形态之间的关系。