STRATEGIC BEHAVIOR AND POLICY CHOICE ON THE U.S. SUPREME COURT by Thomas H. Hammond, Chris W. Bonneau, Reginald S. Sheehan ( 9780804751452 )

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Title:

STRATEGIC BEHAVIOR AND POLICY CHOICE ON THE U.S. SUPREME COURT

By:

Thomas H. Hammond, Chris W. Bonneau, Reginald S. Sheehan

Format:

Hardback

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ISBN 10:

0804751455

ISBN 13:

9780804751452

Publisher:

STANFORD UNIVERSITY PRESS

Pub. date:

30 June, 2005

Pages:

323

Description:

This book presents the first comprehensive model of policymaking by strategically-rational justices who pursue their own policy preferences in the Supreme Court's multi-stage decision-making process.

Synopsis:

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.

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Stanford University Press

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Non-returnable

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