No abstract

No abstract

No abstract

espite important advances during the past few decades in the study of courts and judicial behavior, much of the theory and data developed by social scientists for understanding legal systems remain largely the product of, and thus bound to, the inevitable peculiarities of the American context.' This represents a curious inconsistency in the logic of our research agenda since the scientific method to which we adhere is supposed to encourage theory building and description at the broadest level. Yet, as Tate has argued (e. g. , 1983, 1987) social scientists have not been sufficiently aggressive in examining the generalizability of models of the judicial process that have emerged from the American context.2 2

No abstract