1. Introduction: Supreme Court policy making
2. Models of decision making I: the legal model
3. Models of decision making II: the attitudinal and rational choice models
4. A political history of the Supreme Court
5. Staffing the Court
6. Getting into Court
7. The decision on the merits: the legal process
8. The decision on the merits: the attitudinal and rational choice models
9. Opinion assignment and opinion coalitions
10. The Supreme Court and constitutional democracy
11. Conclusion.

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