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What Justices Want: Goals and Personality on the U.S. Supreme Court

What Justices Want: Goals and Personality on the U.S. Supreme Court

Name: What Justices Want: Goals and Personality on the U.S. Supreme Court
Brand: Cambridge University Press
SKU: 9781108462907
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Author: Matthew Hall
ISBN: 9781108462907

By Matthew Hall

Cambridge University Press October 2018

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ISBN-13: 9781108462907
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Publication: October 2018
Format: Paperback
Jurisdiction: U.K. ? Countri(es) for reference only

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The most sophisticated theories of judicial behavior depict judges as rational actors who strategically pursue multiple goals when making decisions. However, these accounts tend to disregard the possibility that judges have heterogeneous goal preferences - that is, that different judges want different things. Integrating insights from personality psychology and economics, this book proposes a new theory of judicial behavior in which judges strategically pursue multiple goals, but their personality traits determine the relative importance of those goals. This theory is tested by analyzing the behavior of justices who served on the US Supreme Court between 1946 and 2015. Using recent advances in text-based personality measurement, Hall evaluates the influence of the 'big five' personality traits on the justices' behavior during each stage of the Court's decision-making process. What Justices Want shows that personality traits directly affect the justices' choices and moderate the influence of goal-related situational factors on justices' behavior.

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

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