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The Supreme Court and the Attitudinal Model

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A political history of the Supreme Court can be found in this paper, where the authors present a model of decision-making in the court and the decision-on-the-merits process.
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Preface 1. Introduction: Supreme Court policy making 2. Models of decision making 3. A political history of the Supreme Court 4. Staffing the Court 5. Getting into court 6. The decision on the merits process 7. Opinion assignment and opinion coalitions 8. The Supreme Court and constitutional democracy 9. The impact of judicial decisions 10. Conclusion Appendix Index.

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