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The Pioneers of Judicial Behavior
Nancy Maveety, Editor
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In The Pioneers of Judicial Behavior, prominent political scientists critically examine the contributions to the field of public law of the pioneering scholars of judicial behavior: C. Hermann Pritchett, Glendon Schubert, S. Sidney Ulmer, Harold J. Spaeth, Joseph Tanenhaus, Beverly Blair Cook, Walter F. Murphy, J. Woodward Howard, David J. Danelski, David Rohde, Edward S. Corwin, Alpheus Thomas Mason, Robert G. McCloskey, Robert A. Dahl, and Martin Shapiro.
Unlike past studies that have traced the emergence and growth of the field of judicial studies, The Pioneers of Judicial Behavior accounts for the emergence and exploration of three current theoretical approaches to the study of judicial behavior--attitudinal, strategic, and historical-institutionalist--and shows how the research of these foundational scholars has contributed to contemporary debates about how to conceptualize judges as policy makers. Chapters utilize correspondence of and interviews with some early scholars, and provide a format to connect the concerns and controversies of the first political scientists of law and courts to contemporary challenges and methodological debates among today's judicial scholars. The volume's purpose in looking back is to look forward: to contribute to an ecumenical research agenda on judicial decision making, and, ultimately, to the generation of a unified, general theory of judicial behavior.
The Pioneers of Judicial Behavior will be of interest to graduate students in the law and courts field, political scientists interested in the philosophy of social science and the history of the discipline, legal practitioners and researchers, and political commentators interested in academic theorizing about public policy making.
Nancy L. Maveety is Associate Professor of Political Science, Tulane University.
Unlike past studies that have traced the emergence and growth of the field of judicial studies, The Pioneers of Judicial Behavior accounts for the emergence and exploration of three current theoretical approaches to the study of judicial behavior--attitudinal, strategic, and historical-institutionalist--and shows how the research of these foundational scholars has contributed to contemporary debates about how to conceptualize judges as policy makers. Chapters utilize correspondence of and interviews with some early scholars, and provide a format to connect the concerns and controversies of the first political scientists of law and courts to contemporary challenges and methodological debates among today's judicial scholars. The volume's purpose in looking back is to look forward: to contribute to an ecumenical research agenda on judicial decision making, and, ultimately, to the generation of a unified, general theory of judicial behavior.
The Pioneers of Judicial Behavior will be of interest to graduate students in the law and courts field, political scientists interested in the philosophy of social science and the history of the discipline, legal practitioners and researchers, and political commentators interested in academic theorizing about public policy making.
Nancy L. Maveety is Associate Professor of Political Science, Tulane University.
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Cover
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Title
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Copyright
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Dedication
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Contents
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Preface and Acknowledgments
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CHAPTER 1 The Study of Judicial Behavior and the Discipline of Political Science
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PART 1 The Attitudinal Pioneers
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CHAPTER 2 C. Herman Pritchett: Innovator with an Ambiguous Legacy
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CHAPTER 3 Glendon Schubert: The Judicial Mind
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CHAPTER 4 S. Sidney Ulmer: The Multidimensionality of Judicial Decision Making
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CHAPTER 5 Harold J. Spaeth: The Supreme Court Computer
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CHAPTER 6 Joseph Tanenhaus: The “Learned Discipline” of Public Law
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CHAPTER 7 Beverly Blair Cook: The Value of Eclecticism
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PART 2 The Strategic Pioneers
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CHAPTER 8 Walter F. Murphy: The Interactive Nature of Judicial Decision Making
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CHAPTER 9 J. Woodford Howard Jr.: Fluidity, Strategy, and Analytical Synthesis in Judicial Studies
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CHAPTER 10 David J. Danelski: Social Psychology and Group Choice
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CHAPTER 11 David Rohde: Rational Choice Theorist
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PART 3 The Historical-Institutionalist Pioneers
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CHAPTER 12 Edward S. Corwin as Public Scholar
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CHAPTER 13 Alpheus Thomas Mason: Piercing the Judicial Veil
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CHAPTER 14 Robert G. McCloskey, Historical Institutionalism, and the Arts of Judicial Governance
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CHAPTER 15 Robert Dahl: Democracy, Judicial Review, and the Study of Law and Courts
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CHAPTER 16 Martin Shapiro: Anticipating the New Institutionalism
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Afterword
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Contributors
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Index
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Published: 2002
Publisher: University of Michigan Press
- 978-0-472-06822-7 (paper)
- 978-0-472-02420-9 (ebook)