Courts and Judges

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Contents: Series preface Introduction. The Selection and Retention of Judges: Senate voting on Supreme Court nominees: a neoinstitutional model, Charles M. Cameron, Albert D. Cover and Jeffrey A. Segal The politics of Supreme Court nominations: a theory of institutional constraints and choices, Brian J. Moraski and Charles R. Shipan Constituent influence in State Supreme Courts: conceptual notes and a case study, Melinda Gann Hall. Judicial Decision Making: Divisions of opinion among justices of the US Supreme Court, C. Herman Pritchett On the mysterious demise of consensual norms in the United States Supreme Court, Thomas G. Walker, Lee Epstein and William J. Dixon The study of judicial decision-making as an aspect of political behavior, Glendon A. Schubert Sophisticated voting and gate-keeping in the Supreme Court, Gregory A. Caldiera, John R. Wright and Christopher J.W. Zorn Predicting Supreme Court cases probabilistically: the search and seizure cases, Jeffrey A. Segal Voting behavior in the United States Courts of Appeals 1961-64, Sheldon Goldman Judicial policy-making and southern school segregation, Michael W. Giles and Thomas G.Walker, Civic virtue and the feminine voice in constitutional adjudication, Suzanna Sherry What do judges and justices maximize? (the same thing everybody else does), Richard A. Posner Strategic policy considerations and voting fluidity on the Burger Court, Forrest Maltzman and Paul J, Wahlbeck. Constraints on Judicial Power: Lower court checks on Supreme Court power, Walter F. Murphy Judicial partisanship and obedience to legal doctrine: whistleblowing on the Federal Courts of Appeals, Frank B. Cross and Emerson H. Tiller Overriding Supreme Court statutory interpretation decisions, William N. Eskridge Jr The logic of strategic defection: court-executive relations in Argentina under dictatorship and democracy, Gretchen Helmke. The Role of Courts in Democracies: Decision-making in a democracy: the supreme court as a na