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Voting fluidity and the attitudinal model of Supreme Court decision making.
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This article is published in Political Research Quarterly.The article was published on 1991-03-01. It has received 33 citations till now. The article focuses on the topics: Concurring opinion & Majority opinion.read more
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The Norm of Consensus on the U.S. Supreme Court
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors use the docket books of Chief Justice Waite (1874-1888) and make the following argument: if a norm of consensus induced unanimity on Courts of by-gone eras, then the norm may have manifested itself through public unanimity in the face of private conference disagreements.
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Taking Law Seriously
TL;DR: For example, the authors argues that the positive literature on judicial behavior has not received nearly the attention it deserves, and identifies three specific sets of problems with the positive scholarship, offering detailed suggestions on how positive scholars can avoid them.
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Strategic Policy Considerations and Voting Fluidity on the Burger Court
TL;DR: This paper explored the occurrence of voting fluidity on the Burger Court (1969-85) and found that justices' decisions to change their votes stem primarily from strategic policy considerations, uncertainty over issues involved in a case, the chief justice's interest in protecting his prerogatives and other institutional pressures.
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`Freshman effects' for Supreme Court justices
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors examined whether new Supreme Court justices experience what have been known as "freshman effects." The results of several studies examining various aspects of the effects are, at best, mixed.
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Taking Law Seriously
TL;DR: Friedman as discussed by the authors argues that the positive literature on judicial behavior has not received nearly the attention it deserves, and identifies three specific sets of problems with the positive scholarship, offering detailed suggestions on how positive scholars can avoid them.
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Ideological Values and the Votes of U.S. Supreme Court Justices
Jeffrey A. Segal,Albert D. Cover +1 more
TL;DR: Using content analytic techniques, this paper derived independent and reliable measures of the values of all Supreme Court justices from Earl Warren to Anthony Kennedy, providing strong support for the attitudinal model.
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On the Fluidity of Judicial Choice
TL;DR: In this article, the authors present empirical findings as a basis to critique some current research techniques in hopes of contributing to the analytical synthesis which must come if the discipline is to make a concerted advance in understanding judicial behavior.
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