Role Lag in Urban Trial Courts
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 3341053 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Beverly Blair Cook (University of Wisconsin–Milwaukee) |
| Year | 1972 |
| Volume | 25 |
| Issue | 2 |
| Pages | 234-248 |
| Publication date | 1972-06-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | The Western Political Quarterly (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0043-4078 • E-ISSN: 2325-8675 |
| Publisher | SAGE Publications Inc (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1177/106591297202500206 |
| OpenAlex | W2025633351 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 4 |
HE ONE-JUDGE COURT is going the way of the one-room schoolhouse. Structural change is forcing established judges with internalized norms and habits associated with single-judge benches to adjust their definition and performance to suit the requirements of multi-judge benches with integrative controls. Even the new judge appointed to a multi-judge bench is torn between the demands of the administrative judge who represents the norms of the new structure and the expectations of the veteran lawyers in his court who reflect the old culture. The problems of recognizing and meeting new expectations cause a lag between the change of a governmental structure and its operation by position-occupants in conformity with the purposes stimulating the change. When the activities of the single judge are associated with the ideology of judicial independence, expectations which appear to negate that principle cause resistance. This study examines the characteristics and performance of twenty district judges on multi-judge benches in the four urban centers of Kansas Wichita, Kansas City, Topeka, and Olathe-in relation to their attitudes toward new administrative controls?. Central to this study is a new concept, role lag, defined as the resistance of a actor to meeting new expectations stemming from a structural adaptation affecting his position. This notion is related to but not identical to strain which implies tension from conflicting demands in the role-set while the structure remains stable.2 The concept is distinguished from learning in that lag concerns changing requirements of the same rather than socialization into a different position.3 Role lag on the four urban courts in Kansas is measured by the percentage of judges who expressed unwilingness to conform (role conformity) to the prescriptions of a strong administrative judge system. When asked a direct question about their intention to support a strong administrative judge, eleven indicated their intent to comply and six indicated their intent not to comply. The other three expressed their antagonism to the administrative judge structure in answers to other questions. The degree of lag in Kansas urban courts in adapting to
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| Unique citing works | 3 |
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| Citations per year | 0,09 |
| Citation span | 1983 - 2022 (40) |
| Citation velocity | historical |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 3 |