The Supreme Court and the Attitudinal Model Revisited

Thisbook,authoredbytwoleadingscholarsoftheSupremeCourtanditspolicymaking,systematicallypresentsandvalidatestheuseoftheattitudinalmodeltoexplainandpredictSupremeCourtdecisionmaking.Intheprocess,itcritiquesthetwomajoralternativemodelsofSupremeCourtdecisionmakingandtheirmajorvariants:thelegalandrationalchoice.UsingtheUSSupremeCourtDataBase,thejustices'privatepapers,andothersourcesofinformation,thebookanalyzestheappointmentprocess,certiorari,thedecisiononthemerits,opinionassignments,andtheformationofopinioncoalitions.Thebookwillbethedefinitivepresentationoftheattitudinalmodelaswellasanauthoritativecritiqueofthelegalandrationalchoicemodels.Thebookthoroughlyreflectsresearchdonesincethe1993publicationofitspredecessor,aswellasdecisionsanddevelopmentsintheSupremeCourt,includingthemomentousdecisionofBushv.Gore.