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Trends. Predecisional Distortion: An Example Of Psychology Distorting Justice?, Ibpp Editor
Trends. Predecisional Distortion: An Example Of Psychology Distorting Justice?, Ibpp Editor
International Bulletin of Political Psychology
This Trends article discusses the concept of ‘Predecisional Distortion’ in the context of how juries make decisions.
Remembering, Forgetting And Historical Injustice, Robert Cribb, Kenneth Christie
Remembering, Forgetting And Historical Injustice, Robert Cribb, Kenneth Christie
Robert Cribb
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Democracy And Legitimation: A Response To Professor Guinier, Louis Michael Seidman
Democracy And Legitimation: A Response To Professor Guinier, Louis Michael Seidman
Georgetown Law Faculty Publications and Other Works
This essay is a response to Supreme Democracy: Bush v. Gore Redux, an essay by Lani Guinier (2002).
The author critiques Professor Lani Guinier’s essay through a discussion of the maldistribution of wealth in American society, which he argues is accepted by American people thanks to the existence complex structures that allow them to distance themselves from it. He discusses four legitimation structures as he critiques this essay.
Professor Guinier focuses on the belief in meritocracy. For our purposes, we might define a believer in meritocracy as someone who thinks that, in a given society, people get more or less …