There are three general models of Supreme Court decision making: the legal model, the attitudinal model and the strategic model. But each is somewhat incomplete

What influences decisions of the U.S. Supreme Court? For decades social scientists focused on the ideology of individual justices. Supreme Court Decision Making

How oral arguments influence the decisions of Supreme Court justices.

This is the first comprehensive analysis of how the collective nature of Supreme Court decision making affects the transformation of the justices' preferences i