The Supreme Court and the Attitudinal Model Revisited
Authored by two leading scholars of the
Supreme Court and its policy making, this study 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 U.S. 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.
