Cass Sunstein on Ideological Voting on the Court of Appeals.–

Last night I went to the Rational Choice Workshop at the University of Chicago (run by Gary Becker and Dick Posner). Cass Sunstein presented an excellent paper showing that the ideological make-up of 3-judge panels tended to lead to more extreme voting and decisions when the panels were ideologically homogeneous. It can be downloaded here.

At the dinner beforehand, the Miers nomination was the main topic of conversation (I sat next to sociologist Ed Laumann and political scientist and former VC contributor Jacob Levy).