Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents vii
3. Figures and Tables ix
4. Acknowledgments xi
5. Introduction: So What Does Law Have to Do with It? 1
6. PART I: Setting the Stage: The Debate over What Law Has to Do with What Judges Do
7. 1. What’s Law Got to Do with It: Thoughts from “The Realm of Political Science” 17
8. 2. On the Study of Judicial Behaviors: Of Law, Politics, Science, and Humility 41
9. PART II : Distinguishing Law from Other Influences on Judicial Decision-making
10. 3. Law and Policy: More and Less than a Dichotomy 71
11. 4. Law Is Politics 92
12. 5. Path Dependence in Studies of Legal Decision-making 114
13. 6. Looking for Law in All the Wrong Places: Some Suggestions for Modeling Legal Decision-making 143
14. 7. Stare Decisis as Reciprocity Norm 173
15. PART III : What Law Has to Do with What Judges Do and Its Implications for Judicial Selection
16. 8. How Judicial Elections Are Like Other Elections and What That Means for the Rule of Law 195
17. 9. On the Cataclysm of Judicial Elections and Other Popular Antidemocratic Myths 223
18. 10. Are Judicial Elections Democracy-Enhancing? 248
19. PART IV: What Law has to do with What Judges Do and Its Implications for Public Confidence in the Courts
20. 11. Judging the Politics of Judging: Are Politicians in Robes Inevitably Illegitimate? 281
21. 12. The Rule of Law Is Dead! Long Live the Rule of Law! 306
22. 13. Three Views from the Bench 328
23. About the Contributors 343
24. Index 345