Supreme Court decision-making new institutionalist approaches edited by Cornell W. Clayton and Howard Gillman. - Chicago University Of Chicago Press 1999. - xiv , 344p. ill. 24 cm.

Includes bibliographical references (p. 301 - 328) and index.

Beyond judicial attitudes : institutional approaches to Supreme Court decision - making / Howard Gillman and Cornell W. Clayton - - The Suprreme Court and political jurisprudence : new and old institutionalisms / Cornel W. Clayton - - Straregy and judicial choice : new institutionalist approaches to Supreme Court decision - making / Forrest Maltzman , James F. Spriggs II , and Paul J. Wahlbeck - -The Court as an idea , not a building (or a game) : interpretive institutional norms and Supreme Court opinions : on reconsidering the rise of individual opinions / David M. O'Brien - -The incidence and structure of dissensus on a State Supreme Court / Charles H. Sheldon - - The Chief Justice and judicial decision - making : the institutional basis for laedership on the Supreme Court / Sue Davis - - The Supreme Court and the development of the welfare state ; judicial liberalism and the problem of welfare rights / Elizabeth Bussiere - - Institutional norms and Supreme Court decision - making : the Rehnquist Court on privacy and religion / Ronald Kahn - - Recruitment and the motivation of Supreme Court justice/ Lawrence Baum - - Mapping out the strategic terrain : the informational role of Amici curiae / Lee Epstein andJack Knight - -Supreme Court deference to Congress : an examination of the marksist model / Jeffrey A. Segal - - External pressure and the Supreme Court's agenda / Charles R. Epp - -State Supreme Courts and their environments : avenues to general theories of judicial choice / Melinda Gann Hall and Paul Brace . x x x

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United States Supreme Court Decision making.


Judicial process--United States.
Law and politics

KF 8748 / .S878 1999