New Module on the Constrained Supreme Court
These lectures provide a proper theoretical clarity for what “attitudinal theory” is on the Supreme Court, and what anecdotal evidence might support it. They also provide a well organized account of the competitor theory, called “institutionalism.” This module is therefore about competing theories of judicial choice. Students learn not only how the idea of a […]
New Module on Judicial Ideology and Party Regimes
What is judicial political ideology on the US Supreme Court, and how is this measured? And what do the results show about whether SCOTUS is “political” (whatever that means) or driven by party regimes? Most of the empirical attention of this module is given to the binary indices of the Supreme Court Data Set. What […]