TY - JOUR AU - Tate, C. AB - The purpose of this article is to contribute to the development of a better fit between theory and methodology in judicial behavior research by reviewing, assessing, and making recommendations for the use of the latter. The methodological practice of judicial behavior research is assessed, and recommendations and projections to the future are provided. Four components of methodology—research design, data sources and generation procedures, operationalization and measurement of concepts, and statistical methods and measures—are discussed. Judicial behavior is understood to have a primary focus on the explanation of the behavior of individual decision makers, but also includes decision making within or by groups of decision makers and by courts. TI - The methodology of judicial behavior research: A review and critique JF - Political Behavior DO - 10.1007/BF00989986 DA - 2004-12-30 UR - https://www.deepdyve.com/lp/springer-journals/the-methodology-of-judicial-behavior-research-a-review-and-critique-sw1CWtidrE SP - 51 EP - 82 VL - 5 IS - 1 DP - DeepDyve ER -