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Nov 13, 2018 · Other investigations have considered attitudinal and principal–agent-based models as determinants of Philippine Supreme Court decisions (Desierto, 2015; Escresa and Garoupa, 2012, 2013). At this point, however, no analysis has explicitly considered informal factors in judicial decision-making.
- Björn Dressel, Tomoo Inoue
- 2018
Thus, far from suggesting that public opinion effects are antag- onistic to an attitudinal model of Supreme Court decision making, psychological theories accommodate the possibility of public opinion effects through the concept of subjective norms.
This article investigates determinants of the Court’s behavior since the country’s return to democracy in 1987, with particular attention to “loyalty effects”—the likelihood that justices will vote for the government more often when the president who appointed them is in office.
This book, authored by two leading scholars of the Supreme Court and its policy making, systematically presents and validates the use of the attitudinal model to explain and predict Supreme Court decision making.
- Jeffrey Allan Segal, Harold J. Spaeth
- 1993
The study of judicial politics has been dominated by the attitudinal model: the proposition that Supreme Court justices decide cases according to their ideology and policy preferences.
The attitudinal model represents a melding together of key concepts from legal realism, political science, psychology, and economics. This model holds that the Supreme Court decides disputes in light of the facts of the case vis-à-vis the ideological attitudes and values of the justices.
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The book begins with a description of “what courts do” and introduces the three alternative theoretical models: the legal model, the attitudinal model, and the strategic models. The third chapter contains a lengthy political history of the Supreme Court.
