1. Introduction: Supreme Court policy making 2. Models of decision making I: the legal model 3. Models of decision making II: the attitudinal and rational choice models 4. A political history of the Supreme Court 5. Staffing the Court 6. Getting into Court 7. The decision on the merits: the legal process 8. The decision on the merits: the attitudinal and rational choice models 9. Opinion assignment and opinion coalitions 10. The Supreme Court and constitutional democracy 11. Conclusion.
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