by Charles S. Lopeman



Editorial Reviews

About the Author
CHARLES S. LOPEMAN is Assistant Professor of Political Science at the
State University of West Georgia.

Product Description:

Lopeman examines the impact that advocacy of intentional judicial activism
by a justice of a state supreme court can have on establishing the court
as a policy maker. He examines the "attitudinal" model and the "judicial
role" model of decision making and concludes that, while the attitudinal
model might describe the decision-making process in the U.S. Supreme
Court, the judicial role model better describes decision making in state
supreme courts. This judicial role model allows the activist to transform
a court into a policy maker.

Product Details

Hardcover: 144 pages
Publisher: Praeger Publishers (October 30, 1999)
ISBN: 0275964558