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1 online resource (xxi, 299 pages) |
Contents |
Frontmatter -- Contents -- Figures and Tables -- Preface -- Acknowledgments -- Part I: Theories of supreme court decision-making -- 1 Introduction -- 2 Seven Distinctions in the Literature -- 3 Assessing Previous Theories of Supreme Court Decision-Making -- Part II: A formal model of supreme court decision-making -- 4 Why Formal Models? -- 5 Definitions and Assumptions -- 6 Coalition Formation and the Final Vote -- 7 Opinion Assignment -- 8 The Conference Vote -- 9 Certiorari -- Part III: Future directions for theories of supreme court decision-making -- 10 Empirical Implications -- 11 Future Research -- Notes -- References -- Index |
Summary |
Despite several decades of research on Supreme Court decision-making by specialists in judicial politics, there is no good answer to a key question: if each justice's behavior on the Court were motivated solely by some kind of "liberal" or "conservative" ideology, what patterns should be expected in the Court's decision-making practices and in the Court's final decisions? It is only when these patterns are identified in advance that political scientists will be able to empirically evaluate theories which assert that the justices' behavior is motivated by the pursuit of their personal policy preferences. This book provides the first comprehensive and integrated model of how strategically rational Supreme Court justices should be expected to behave in all five stages of the Court's decision-making process. The authors' primary focus is on how each justice's wish to gain as desirable a final opinion as possible will affect his or her behavior at each stage of the decision-making process |
Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 289-293) and index |
Notes |
Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002. http://purl.oclc.org/DLF/benchrepro0212 MiAaHDL |
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Subject |
United States. Supreme Court -- Decision making
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United States. Supreme Court fast |
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USA Supreme Court gnd |
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Judicial process -- United States
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LAW -- Government -- Federal.
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Decision making
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Judicial process
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Entscheidungstheorie
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Rechtsfindung
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United States
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Electronic book
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Author |
Bonneau, Chris W.
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Sheehan, Reginald S., 1959-
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LC no. |
2005002881 |
ISBN |
1423749510 |
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9781423749516 |
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0804751455 |
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9780804751452 |
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0804751463 |
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9780804751469 |
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0804767629 |
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9780804767620 |
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