How does the strategic model of judicial decision making differ from the other two?
What will be an ideal response?
An ideal response will:
1, Describe generally each of the three models of judicial decision making—attitudinal, strategic, and legal.
2, Explain that only the strategic model suggests that judges are concerned with how the other branches of government will react to their decisions.
3, Indicate that under the strategic model, judges see themselves as strategic actors in a larger political environment, which may require them to subsume individual policy preferences (attitudinal model) or the plain legal answer (legal model).
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