Acknowledgments
I. Introduction, Cornell Clayton and Howard Gillman
Part I: Legal Norms and the Historical Development of Supreme Court Politics
2. The Constitution of the Supreme Court, John Brigham
3. The Problematic Establishment of Judicial Review, Mark A. Graber
4. Institutional Norms and the Historical Development of Supreme Court Politics: Changing “Social Facts” and Doctrinal Development, Ronald Kahn
Part II: The Supreme Court in Political Context
5. How the Supreme Court Matters in American Politics: New Institutionalist Perspectives, Michael McCann
6. The Supreme Court and Partisan Change: Contravening, Provoking, and Diffusing Partisan Conflict, John B. Gates
7. The Supreme Court Bar and Institutional Relationships, Kevin T. McGuire
8. Bill Clinton’s Excellent Adventure: Political Development and the Modern Confirmation Process, Mark Silverstein
Part III: Supreme Court Agenda Setting and Decision Making in Context
9. Law, Politics, and the Rehnquist Court: Structural Influences on Supreme Court Decision Making, Cornell Clayton
10. Supreme Court Agenda Setting in Gender Equity Cases, 1970-1994, Leslie Friedman
11. Queer New Institutionalism: Notes on the Naked Power Organ in Mainstream Constitutional Theory and Law, Susan Burgess
12. Democratic Theory and Race-Conscious Redistricting: The Supreme Court Constructs the American Voter, Keith J. Bybee
13. Reconnecting the Modern Supreme Court to the Historical Evolution of American Capitalism, Howard Gillman
Bibliography
List of Cases Cited
List of Contributors
Index