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List of Figures | p. vii |
List of Tables | p. ix |
General Introduction | p. 1 |
Technical Introduction | p. 17 |
Linear Regression | |
Logistic Regression | |
Miscellaneous Points | |
A Realistic Theory of Judicial Behavior | p. 25 |
Three Concepts of Legal Realism | |
The Labor-Market Theory of Judicial Behavior | |
The Judicial Utility Function | |
The Legalist Countertheory of Judicial Behavior | |
Antirealism Personified: Judge Harry Edwards. | |
The Previous Empirical Literature | p. 65 |
History | |
Ideology Measures | |
Previous Studies of Judicial Ideology | |
Other Influences | |
Appendix: Empirical Studies of Judicial Behavior | |
The Supreme Court | p. 101 |
Data | |
Ideological Voting by Justices | |
Changes in Justices' Ideology | |
Unanimous Decisions: The Role of Ideology | |
Non-unanimous Decisions: The Role of Ideology | |
Non-unanimous Decisions: Group Effects. | |
Appendix: The Corrected U.S. Supreme Court Database. | |
The Courts of Appeals | p. 153 |
Data | |
Explaining the Judges' Votes (1) | |
Explaining the Judges' Votes (2) | |
Group Influences in the Songer Data. | |
Ideology, Conformity, and Panel Composition Effects in the Sunstein Data | |
The Original and Corrected Songer Database | |
The Original and Expanded Sunstein Database | |
Measures of Ex Ante Ideology of Supreme Court Justices, 1937-2009. | |
The District Courts and the Selection Effect | p. 207 |
District Court Decisions Derived from the Sunstein Database | |
Ideological Influence on District Judges | |
Reversals | |
Dismissals | |
Another Selection Effect | |
The Paradox of Discretion | |
Ideology in Sentencing | |
Dissents and Dissent Aversion | p. 255 |
Costs and Benefits of Dissenting | |
The Effect of Panel Composition | |
A Formal Model of Deciding Whether to Dissent | |
Empirical Analysis | |
Effects of Senior Status and Age on Dissent Rates | |
The Questioning of Lawyers at Oral Argument | p. 305 |
Empirical Analysis | |
Number of Questions or Number of Words? | |
Explaining Variations in the Number of Questions and the Total Number of Words in Questions | |
Individual Justices | |
The Auditioners | p. 337 |
Appointment and Promotion in the Federal Judiciary | |
Auditioning for the Supreme Court | |
Voting Behavior of Auditioners for the Supreme Court | |
Auditioning for the Courts of Appeals | |
Voting Behavior of Auditioners for the Courts of Appeals. | |
Appendix: Court of Appeals Judges in the Supreme Court Promotion Pool, 1930-2010 | |
Conclusion: The Way Forward | p. 385 |
Acknowledgments | p. 405 |
Index | p. 407 |
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