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Banks Miller teaches political science at the School of Economic, Political, and Policy Sciences at the University of Texas at Dallas. Linda Camp Keith is Associate Professor of Political Science at the School of Economic, Political, and Policy Sciences at the University of Texas at Dallas. She is author of many works on human rights and the rule of law, including Political Repression: Courts and Law, also available from the University of Pennsylvania Press. Jennifer S. Holmes is Professor of Public Policy and Political Economy at the School of Economic, Political, and Policy Sciences at the University of Texas at Dallas. She is author of Terrorism and Democratic Stability.
List of contents
Chapter 1. Introduction
Chapter 2. Creating a Dataset
Chapter 3. A Cognitive Approach to IJ Decision Making
Chapter 4. Local Conditions and IJ Decision Making
Chapter 5. Appealing to the Board of Immigration Appeals
Chapter 6. The Policy Gap and Asylum Outcomes
Chapter 7. IJs and Reform of the U.S. Asylum System
Notes
References
Index
Acknowledgments
About the author
Banks Miller teaches political science at the School of Economic, Political, and Policy Sciences at the University of Texas at Dallas. Linda Camp Keith is Associate Professor of Political Science at the School of Economic, Political, and Policy Sciences at the University of Texas at Dallas. She is author of many works on human rights and the rule of law, including Political Repression: Courts and Law, also available from the University of Pennsylvania Press. Jennifer S. Holmes is Professor of Public Policy and Political Economy at the School of Economic, Political, and Policy Sciences at the University of Texas at Dallas. She is author of Terrorism and Democratic Stability.
Summary
Immigration Judges and U.S. Asylum Policy investigates hundreds of thousands of U.S. asylum cases with theoretical sophistication and empirical rigor, finding that immigration judges tend to assess legally relevant facts objectively while their decisions may be subjectively influenced by extralegal facts.
