[DOWNLOAD] "Strategic Behavior and Policy Choice on the U.S. Supreme Court" by Thomas H. Hammond, Chris W. Bonneau & Reginald S. Sheehan ~ eBook PDF Kindle ePub Free

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- Title: Strategic Behavior and Policy Choice on the U.S. Supreme Court
- Author : Thomas H. Hammond, Chris W. Bonneau & Reginald S. Sheehan
- Release Date : January 01, 2005
- Genre: Political Science,Books,Politics & Current Events,
- Pages : * pages
- Size : 7929 KB
Description
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 justiceās behavior on the Court were motivated solely by some kind of āliberalā or āconservativeā ideology, what patterns should be expected in the Courtās decision-making practices and in the Courtās 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 justicesā 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 authorsā primary focus is on how each justiceās wish to gain as desirable a final opinion as possible will affect his or her behavior at each stage of the decision-making process.