Law, Politics, and Perception: How Policy Preferences Influence Legal Reasoning

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List of Figures and Tables xi Preface xv Acknowledgments xix Introduction  PART 1 The Case for Investigating Motivated Reasoning in Legal Decision Making ONE Outlining a Theory of Motivated Cognition in Legal Decision Making  TWO A Motivated Reasoning Approach to the Commerce Clause Interpretation of the Rehnquist Court  PART 2 Testing the Mechanisms THREE Seeing What They Want? Analogical Perception in Discrimination Disputes (with Thomas E. Nelson)  FOUR Reasoning on the Threshold: Testing the Separability of Preferences in Legal Decision Making  FIVE Justifying Outcomes? How Legal Decision Makers Explain Threshold Decisions  SIX Motivated Reasoning as an Empirical Framework: Finding Our Way Back to Context  APPENDIXES A- Materials Related to Experiments on Analogical Perception  CONTENTS x Contents A- Supplemental Regression Analyses for Experiments on Analogical Perception  B Materials Relating to Experiment Testing the Separability of Preferences  Notes  References  Index  ...