Strategic behavior and policy choice on the U.S. Supreme Court /

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 patte...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Hammond, Thomas H., 1947-
Otros Autores: Bonneau, Chris W., Sheehan, Reginald S., 1959-
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Stanford, Calif. : Stanford University Press, 2005.
Temas:
United States. > Supreme Court > Decision making.
États-Unis. > Supreme Court > Prise de décision.
United States. > Supreme Court
USA > Supreme Court
Judicial process > United States.
Processus judiciaire > États-Unis.
LAW > Government > Federal.
Decision making
Judicial process
Entscheidungstheorie
Rechtsfindung
United States
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • 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

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