Judges and their audiences: a perspective on judicial behavior

List of Tables ix Preface xi Acknowledgments xiii Chapter 1: Thinking about Judicial Behavior 1 Models of Judicial Behavior 5 Shared Assumptions: The Judge as Mr. Spock 9 Limitations of the Dominant Models 19 Audience as a Perspective 21 Chapter 2: Judging as Self-Presentation 25 People and Their Audiences 25 Judicial Self-Presentation: A First Look 32 Audiences and Judicial Behavior 43 Chapter 3: Court Colleagues, the Public, and the Other Branches of Government 50 Court Colleagues 50 The General Public 60 The Other Branches 72 Conclusions 85 Chapter 4: Social and Professional Groups 88 Social Groups 88 Professional Groups: Lawyers and Judges 97 Conclusions 116 Chapter 5: Policy Groups, the News Media, and the Greenhouse Effect 118 Policy Groups 118 The News Media 135 A Greenhouse Effect? 139 Conclusions 155 Appendix: Procedures for Analysis of Voting Change by Supreme Court Justices 155 Chapter 6: Implications for the Study of Judicial Behavior 158 Motivational Bases for the Dominant Models 158 Departures from the Dominant Models 162 Probing the Impact of Judicial Audiences 171 Some Final Thoughts 174 References 177 Name Index 221 Subject and Case Index 229