Supreme Court Decision-Making: New Institutionalist Approaches

by Cornell W. Clayton and Howard Gillman

Book Overview

What influences decisions of the U.S. Supreme Court? For decades social scientists focused on the ideology of individual justices. Supreme Court Decision Making moves beyond this focus by exploring how justices are influenced by the distinctive features of courts as institutions and their place in the political system.

Drawing on interpretive-historical institutionalism as well as rational choice theory, a group of leading scholars consider...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0226109550
• ISBN13: 9780226109558
• Release Date: January 1999
• Publisher: University of Chicago Press
• Length: 358 Pages
• Weight: 1.30 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.1" x 9.0"