Jeffrey A. Segal, Harold J. Spaeth

The Supreme Court and the Attitudinal Model Revisited

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Two leading scholars of the Supreme Court explain and predict its decision making.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 480
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. November 2010
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 28mm
• Gewicht: 773g
• ISBN-13: 9780521789714
• ISBN-10: 0521789710
• Artikelnr.: 21925149

Inhaltsangabe

1. Introduction: Supreme Court policy making
2. Models of decision making I: the legal model
3. Models of decision making II: the attitudinal and rational choice models
4. A political history of the Supreme Court
5. Staffing the Court
6. Getting into Court
7. The decision on the merits: the legal process
8. The decision on the merits: the attitudinal and rational choice models
9. Opinion assignment and opinion coalitions
10. The Supreme Court and constitutional democracy
11. Conclusion.