Supreme Court and the Attitudinal Model Revisited

Name: Supreme Court and the Attitudinal Model Revisited
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ISBN: 9780521789714

ISBN-10: 0521789710

ISBN-13: 9780521789714

Edition: 2002

Authors: Jeffrey A. Segal, Harold J. Spaeth

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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 US 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. The book will be the definitive presentation of the attitudinal model as well as an…

Book details

List price: $36.99
Copyright year: 2002
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Publication date: 9/16/2002
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 480
Size: 5.91" wide x 8.90" long x 1.10" tall
Weight: 1.782
Language: English




Introduction: Supreme Court policy making



Models of decision making I: the legal model



Models of decision making II: the attitudinal and rational choice models



A political history of the Supreme Court



Staffing the Court



Getting into Court



The decision on the merits: the legal process



The decision on the merits: the attitudinal and rational choice models



Opinion assignment and opinion coalitions



The Supreme Court and constitutional democracy



Conclusion