The Role of Nominee Gender and Race at U.S. Supreme Court Confirmation Hearings
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 7462011 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Christina L Boyd (0000-0001-5793-1066), Perry Mcd Collins (0000-0002-5474-4123), Paul M Collins, Lori A Ringhand (0009-0009-5313-1753) |
| Year | 2018 |
| Volume | 52 |
| Issue | 4 |
| Pages | 871-901 |
| Publication date | 2018-10-19 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Law & Society Review (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0023-9216 • E-ISSN: 1540-5893 |
| Publisher | Cambridge University Press (CUP) (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1111/lasr.12362 |
| OpenAlex | W2895848868 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 11 |
| References cited | 60 |
We investigate an unexplored aspect of the U.S. Supreme Court confirmation process: whether questioning senators treat female and minority nominees differently from male and white nominees. Applying out-group theory, we argue that senators will ask female and minority nominees more questions about their “judicial philosophies” in an effort to determine their competence to serve on the Court. This out-group bias is likely to be exacerbated for nominees not sharing the senator's political party. Our results do not support racial differences, but they do provide strong evidence that female nominees receive more judicial philosophy-related questions from male senators. This effect is enhanced when the female nominee does not share the partisan affiliation of the questioning senator. Together, these findings indicate that female nominees undergo a substantively different confirmation process than male nominees. We further find that this effect may be most intense with nominees like Justice Sotomayor, whose identities align with more than one out-group
Competence (human resources · Economic Justice · Political science · Politics · Race (biology · Sociology · Supreme court · Electoral Systems and Political Participation · Gender Politics and Representation · Gender Studies · Judicial and Constitutional Studies · Law · Psychology · Social Psychology
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Promoting a Diverse Bench
Politicized Battles
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Citizens, Courts, and Confirmations
Social Cognition
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Gender Bias and Feminist Consciousness among Judges and Attorneys
How Judicial Qualification Ratings May Disadvantage Minority and Female Candidates
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Being Part of the “Home Team”
The Institutionalization of Supreme Court Confirmation Hearings
Gender Biases in (Inter) Action
Sex discrimination in job opportunities for women
Storm Center
The Devaluation of Women's Competence
Shifting Standards and the Evaluation of Competence
Stigma consciousness
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Agreeing to Disagree
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Gender- and race-based standards of competence
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Senate Voting on Supreme Court Nominees
New Approaches to Understanding Racial Prejudice and Discrimination
Double Standards for Competence
| Unique citing works | 11 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 1,83 |
| Citation span | 2020 - 2025 (6) |
| Citation velocity | recent |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 11 |