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Author Hammond, Thomas H., 1947-

Title Strategic behavior and policy choice on the U.S. Supreme Court / Thomas H. Hammond, Chris W. Bonneau, and Reginald S. Sheehan
Published Stanford, Calif. : Stanford University Press, 2005

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Description 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
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Subject United States. Supreme Court -- Decision making
SUBJECT United States. Supreme Court fast
USA Supreme Court gnd
Subject Judicial process -- United States
LAW -- Government -- Federal.
Decision making
Judicial process
Entscheidungstheorie
Rechtsfindung
United States
Form Electronic book
Author Bonneau, Chris W.
Sheehan, Reginald S., 1959-
LC no. 2005002881
ISBN 1423749510
9781423749516
0804751455
9780804751452
0804751463
9780804751469
0804767629
9780804767620