What Justices Want - Goals and Personality on the U.s. Supreme Court

Examines how personality traits shape the behavior of US Supreme Court justices, proposing a new theory of judicial behavior.

List of contents

1. Who they are and what they want; 2. Goals and personality; 3. Measuring justice personality; 4. Agenda setting; 5. Opinion assignments; 6. Intra-court bargaining; 7. Voting on the merits; 8. Separate opinions; 9. Behind the black robes; Appendices; Notes; Index.

About the author

Matthew E. K. Hall is Associate Professor of Political Science and Law at the University of Notre Dame. He specializes in American political institutions with an emphasis on judicial behavior, elite personality, and policy implementation. His book The Nature of Supreme Court Power (Cambridge, 2011) won the C. Herman Pritchett Award for Best Book on Law and Courts from the American Political Science Association.

Summary

This book proposes a new theory of Supreme Court behavior based on the assumption that justices' choices depend on who they are and what they want. Hall shows that Supreme Court justices strategically pursue multiple goals and that their 'big five' personality traits determine the relative importance of those goals.

Product details

• Authors: Matthew E. K. Hall, Matthew E. K. (University of Notre Dame Hall, Hall Matthew E. K.
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 31.08.2018
• EAN: 9781108472746
• ISBN: 978-1-108-47274-6
• No. of pages: 224
• Subjects: Social sciences, law, business > Political science > Political science and political education; USA, POLITICAL SCIENCE / American Government / General, Political science & theory, United States of America, USA, Political science and theory, Central / national / federal government, Central government, Law & society, Law and society, sociology of law, Legal system: general, Legal systems: general