Another Take on Judicial Decisionmaking

Over at The Faculty Lounge, Jeff Yates (SUNY-Binghamton, Poli Sci) has an interesting post about Supreme Court Justices' decisionmaking. In the post he asks: "How do U.S. Supreme Court justices decide how to vote in cases? I would suggest that for all of the complex legal, strategic, and attitudinal models set forth by scholars, a reasonable response to this question would be to ask another, very simple, question - How do you make important decisions?"  The post also links to a recent paper by Jeff (along with Brian Levey and Justin Moeller), For the Times They are a Changin': Explaining U.S. Supreme Court Justices' Voting Through Identification of Micro-Publics, that more fully develops the "micro-publics" thesis.