Research handbook on judicial politics / edited by Michael P. Fix (Professor, Department of Political Science, Georgia State University) and Matthew D. Montgomery (Assistant Professor, Department of Political Science, Texas Christian University, US).

Contents: 1. Introduction to the research handbook on judicial politics / Michael P. Fix and Matthew D. Montgomery
Part I. Judicial decision making
2. Us supreme court decision making in intellectual property rights (1954-2022) / Isaac Unah and Sabrina Zi Tong Peng
3. Judicial decision making on lower federal courts / Hayley Munir, Michael Catalano and Wendy L. Martinek
4. Judicial decision making on us state courts / David A. Hughes
5. Studying judicial decision-making beyond western democracies: Lessons from Latin America / Mishella Romo Rivas and Raul Sanchez-Urribarri
6. Gender and racial influences on judicial decision making / Susan Haire, Alyson Hendricks-Benton, and Vanisha Kudumuri
Part II. Judicial appointments and elections
7. The nomination and confirmation of us supreme court justices / Imtashal Tariq and Paul M. Collins, Jr.
8. Lower federal court confirmations / Amy Steigerwalt and Morgan Smith
9. Comparative judicial governance / Gabriela Aída Cantú Ramos and Julio Ríos Figueroa
10. Race and gender in judicial selection in the United States / Matthew E. Baker, Christina L. Boyd, Aidan N. González, and Karson A. Pennington
Part III. Vertical and horizontal constraints on judicial behavior
11. The president and the court / Natalie C. Rogol
12. Congress and the courts / Albert H. Rivero and Ellen M. Key
13. Delegation and deference: Federal judicial decision-making and administrative agencies / Jennifer Hickey, Gbemende E. Johnson, and Jaylin Small
14. State high courts and horizontal constraints / Meghan E. Leonard
15. Hierarchical influences on judicial decision-making in the United States / Benjamin J. Kassow
16. A bottom-up approach to lower court influence on the supreme court of the United Kingdom / Jennifer Bowie, Ali S. Masood, Elisha Carol Savchak, Susan W. Johnson, Lauren Oligino, and Adam Webster
17. "riding a bicycle is frivolous behavior": Sources of judicial deference in Turkey / Onur Bakiner
Part IV. Audience considerations and extrajudicial communications
18. Judicial audiences / Ryan J. Owens and Marcy Shieh
19. Follow the court: Examining judicial homestyle through extrajudicial communications on state court twitter / Cayleb B. Stives and Todd A. Curry
20. Preserving institutional legitimacy through openness: The supreme court of Canada and chief justice wagner / Tamara A. Small and Kate Puddister
21. Judicial communication, collegial education, cultural competency, and the significance of state judicial diversity / Taneisha Nicole Means, Joseph P. Kelly, and Simon LaClair
22. Judicial communication beyond the us / Jay N. Krehbiel
Part V. Public opinion and legitimacy
23. Toward a theory of "the public" in research on the relationship between public opinion and supreme court outcomes / Brandon L. Bartels
24. The effect of supreme court fecisions on public opinion / Nicholas D. Conway, Alison Higgins Merrill, and Joseph Daniel Ura
25. Understanding the us supreme court's legitimacy / Michael J. Nelson, Taran Samarth, and Amanda Driscoll
26. Law and social movements / Erin Mayo-Adam
Part VI. Methodological issues in judicial politics research
27. Measuring judicial ideology / Chad Westerland
28. Comparative methods for measuring judicial ideology and behavior / Udi Sommer and Roee Braverman
29. Law, text, and judicial politics / Morgan L.W. Hazelton
30. Which are the main characteristics determining sentence severity? An empirical exploration of shoplifting offences using spike-and-slab models / Jose Pina-Sánchez, Mandeep K. Dhami, and John Paul Gosling.