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The SAGE Handbook of Research Methods in Political Science and International Relations offers a comprehensive overview of research processes in social science - from the ideation and design of research projects, through the construction of theoretical arguments, to conceptualization, measurement, and data collection, and quantitative and qualitative empirical analysis - exposited through 65 major new contributions from leading international methodologists. Each chapter surveys, builds upon, and extends the modern state of the art in its area. Following through its six-part organization, undergraduate and graduate students, researchers and practicing academics will be guided through the design, methods, and analysis of issues in Political Science and International Relations: Part One: Formulating Good Research Questions and Designing Good Research Projects; Part Two: Methods of Theoretical Argumentation; Part Three: Conceptualization and Measurement; Part Four: Large-Scale Data Collection and Representation Methods; Part Five: Quantitative-Empirical Methods; Part Six: Qualitative and Mixed Methods.
Models of the Judiciary
Models of the Judiciary
Preface
This chapter provides an overview of how courts work. It focuses on American federal courts, and takes the perspective of contemporary analytical theory. In other words, it reviews game-theoretic models of American courts. The chapter's structure follows the path of a case through the courts. These paths are long (see the literary description of how long in Jarndyce and Jarndyce as told by Charles Dickens (1853)). As a result, the chapter necessarily skims over each step, and unfortunately leaves aside many relevant and important models, papers and treatises. My hope is that the chapter, targeted at scholars of other institutions, will provide a cursory overview of how game theorists think about courts. ...
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