Judging on a Collegial Court

Using sophisticated state-of-the-art statistical techniques, the authors present convincing and often surprising answers to their research questions. Their work helps to illuminate judicial voting and judicial opinion behavior on the appeals courts and as such contributes to our understanding of appeals court decision-making. The book will surely be considered a classic in the field. - Sheldon Goldman, University of Massachusetts at Amherst, author of Picking Federal Judges: Lower Court Selection from Roosevelt through Reagan ""This is an excellent and ambitious work that is theoretically driven and empirically grounded. The authors offer a persuasive and compelling account of the internal dynamics of the U.S. Courts of Appeals.... It is challenging to offer a unified circuit court model. But the authors do that and much more. The resulting work is meticulously researched and well-written. It will be a definitive work on the courts."" - Tracey E. George, Vanderbilt University ""[Judging on a Collegial Court] is theoretically rich and methodologically sophisticated."" - Law and Politics Book Review