Testing murphy's strategic model: Assigning the majority opinion to the marginal justice in the conference coalition on the U.S. supreme court

American Politics Research

Volumn 36, Issue 3, 2008, Pages 416-432

  Arrington, Theodore S ^a   Brenner, Saul ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA AT CHARLOTTE   (United States)

Author keywords

Coalition formation; Judicial decision making; Judicial politics; Marginal justice; Supreme Court

Indexed keywords

EID: 41549110725     PISSN: 1532673X     EISSN: 15523373     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/1532673X07308357     Document Type: Article

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