Strategy on the United States Supreme Court
By: Saul Brenner, Joseph Whitmeyer.
Contributors: Whitmeyer, Joseph, 1960-
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2009
Place of publication: Cambridge; New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 196
ISBN-13: 9780521516723; 9780521736343
Subjects: United States. -- Supreme Court -- Decision making; Judicial process -- United States
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: The legal model; title: The attitudinal model; title: The strategic models; title: The losing litigant model; title: The outcome-prediction strategy; title: Strategic voting at the conference vote; title: Fluidity and strategic voting; title: The extent of successful bargaining over the content of the majority opinion; title: The size of opinion coalitions; title: At whose ideal point will the majority opinion be written?; title: Reciprocity on the Supreme Court; title: The separation of powers model; title: Supreme Court decision making and public opinion; title: Strategies in pursuit of institutional goals.