Pamela C. Corley is Associate Professor of Political Science at Southern Methodist University. Amy Steigerwalt is Professor of Political Science at Georgia State University. Artemus Ward is Professor of Political Science at Northern Illinois University. Together they are coauthors of The Puzzle of Unanimity: Consensus on the United States Supreme Court.
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List of Figures List of Tables Acknowledgments 1. Introduction 2. Dissenting Behavior on the United States Supreme Court 3. Endeavoring to Accommodate: Dissent Coalition Behavior 4. Intra-Court Dialogue: Contemporaneous Effect of Dissents on Majority Opinions 5. Judicial Conversations Through Time: The Influence of Dissents on Future U.S. Supreme Court Majority Opinions 6. Conclusion Notes References
More so today than ever before, U.S. Supreme Court justices sit at the center of our nation's debates over law and policy. In their impressive and accessible new book Corley, Steigerwalt, and Ward demonstrate when, why, and how justices themselves engage in these debates through their dissenting opinions. Judicial Dialogue: The Politics of U.S. Supreme Court Dissents provides the most comprehensive scholarly examination of Supreme Court dissensus to date and will be of great interest to Court watchers of all types. --Christina Boyd, University of Georgia, co-author of The Politics of Federal Prosecution This is the first effort to systematically investigate the question of the impact of dissent and to integrate disparate literatures on dissenting opinion writing in order to do so. The authors use an original methodology to interrogate dissent, and its impact on the collegial process of law production, to make a substantial contribution to the understanding of the field of law and judicial process. --Nancy Maveety, Tulane University, author of Queen's Court: Judicial Power in the Rehnquist Era