Authored by two leading scholars of the Supreme Court and its policy making, this study systematically presents and validates the use of the attitudinal model to explain and predict Supreme Court decision making. In the process, it critiques the two major alternative models of Supreme Court decision making and their major variants--the legal and rational choice. Using the U.S. Supreme Court Data Base, the justices' private papers, and other sources of information, the book analyzes the appointment process, certiorari, the decision on the merits, opinion assignments, and the formation of opinion coalitions.
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"...the book represents the culmination of an academic conversation dating back to the 1940s and sets the stage for the next phase." Perspectives on Political Science
"...a worthy successor to The Supreme Court and the Attitudinal Model (1993). In sum [this] is an excellent book. Almost anyone with an interest in Supreme Court decision making will find a lot to like within its pages. Serious scholars of judicial behavior should definitely find a place for this book on their personal library shelves." The Law and Politics Book Review
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"...a worthy successor to The Supreme Court and the Attitudinal Model (1993). In sum [this] is an excellent book. Almost anyone with an interest in Supreme Court decision making will find a lot to like within its pages. Serious scholars of judicial behavior should definitely find a place for this book on their personal library shelves." The Law and Politics Book Review
"A first-rate book and a perfect companion reader for courses in constitutional law and judicial policy." Choice
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This book, authored by two leading scholars of the Supreme Court and its policy making, systematically presents and validates the use of the attitudinal model to explain and predict Supreme Court decision making. In the process, it critiques the two major alternative models of Supreme Court decision making and their major variants: the legal and rational choice.Using the U.S. Supreme Court Data Base, the justices' private papers, and other sources of information, the book analyzes the appointment process, certiorari, the decision on the merits, opinion assignments, and the formation of opinion coalitions.
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In terms of discussions of the Supreme Court, this book is something of a staple. The authors tend to allow a bit much of their own opinions into the stories they tell, but the analysis of the manner in which the Justices decide cases is provocative. Reading and understanding the arguments contained in the Attitudinal Model is core curriculum in academic conversations on the nature of the Court.
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If the fatuousness characteristic of Pollyanna had continued to rose-color anyone's attitude toward the U.S. Supreme Court, the decision in Bush v. Gore must have been mind-boggling. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
precedential behavior, majority vote coalition, confirmation voting, certiorari voting, majority opinion coalition, cert decisions, marginal justice, attitudinal model, freshman effect, court policy making, sincere preferences, opinion coalitions, certiorari decisions, sincere behavior, special concurrences, liberties agenda, qualified nominees, personal policy preferences, opinion assignment, preferential behavior, congressional preferences, statutory decisions, conference voting, court voided, civil liberties cases Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
United States, New York, Warren Court, Burger Court, Rehnquist Court, Solicitor General, First Amendment, Bill of Rights, Vinson Court, Saul Brenner, American Political Science Review, Journal of Politics, Lee Epstein, Eleventh Amendment, Clarence Thomas, Robert Bork, American Political Science Association, Congressional Quarterly, Board of Education, Glendon Schubert, Linda Greenhouse, Rehnquist Five, Richard Nixon, Cambridge University Press, Chief Justice Rehnquist New!
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If the fatuousness characteristic of Pollyanna had continued to rose-color anyone's attitude toward the U.S. Supreme Court, the decision in Bush v. Gore must have been mind-boggling. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
precedential behavior, majority vote coalition, confirmation voting, certiorari voting, majority opinion coalition, cert decisions, marginal justice, attitudinal model, freshman effect, court policy making, sincere preferences, opinion coalitions, certiorari decisions, sincere behavior, special concurrences, liberties agenda, qualified nominees, personal policy preferences, opinion assignment, preferential behavior, congressional preferences, statutory decisions, conference voting, court voided, civil liberties cases Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
United States, New York, Warren Court, Burger Court, Rehnquist Court, Solicitor General, First Amendment, Bill of Rights, Vinson Court, Saul Brenner, American Political Science Review, Journal of Politics, Lee Epstein, Eleventh Amendment, Clarence Thomas, Robert Bork, American Political Science Association, Congressional Quarterly, Board of Education, Glendon Schubert, Linda Greenhouse, Rehnquist Five, Richard Nixon, Cambridge University Press, Chief Justice Rehnquist New!
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- The Supreme Court and the Attitudinal Model by Jeffrey A. Segal on 5 pages
- Supreme Court Decision Making by David W. Rohde on page 92, page 224, and page 404
- Supreme Court Practice: For Practice in the Supreme Court of the United States by Robert L. Stern on page 240, page 244, and page 280
- Supreme Court Policy Making: Explanation and Prediction by Harold J. Spaeth on page 1, page 182, and page 324
- Taking Rights Seriously by Ronald Dworkin on page 26, page 49, and page 294
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- Empirical Gap in Jurisprudence: A Comprehensive Study of the Supreme Court of Canada by Daved Muttart in Back Matter (1), and Back Matter (2)
- Law as a Means to an End: Threat to the Rule of Law (Law in Context) by Brian Z. Tamanaha on page 97, and page 175
- Executing the Constitution: Putting the President Back into the Constitution (Suny Series in American Constitutionalism) by Christopher S. Kelley on page 194, and page 197
- Courts And Social Transformation in New Democracies: An Institutional Voice for the Poor? by Roberto Gargarella in Back Matter (1), and Back Matter (2)
- Advice and Consent: The Politics of Judicial Appointments by Lee Epstein in Back Matter (1), and Back Matter (2)
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