Law, Ideology, and Collegiality: Judicial Behaviour in the Supreme Court of Canada 9780773587496

In a ground-breaking study on the nature of judicial behaviour in the Supreme Court of Canada, Donald Songer, Susan John

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Table of contents :
Cover
Title
Copyright
Contents
List of Tables
List of Figures
List of Cases
1 Introduction
2 The Supreme Court's Evolving Role
3 Theories of Supreme Courts' Decision Making
4 The Process of Decision Making
5 The Dimensionality of Voting
6 Measuring Ideology and Justices' Votes
7 The Socio-political Bases of Attitudinal Voting
8 The Attitudinal Model and the Puzzle of Unanimity
9 Conclusions: Attitudinal Decision Making and the Supreme Court
Appendices
A Interviews with Justices
B Factor Analysis of Cases
Notes
Bibliography
Index
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B
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D
E
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G
H
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J
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