A new judicial politics of legal doctrine has the potential to resolve foundational dilemmas
and reconcile long-standing and counterproductive scholarly divisions by bringing together
legal concerns and political science priorities. This doctrinal-politics approach highlights a
relatively new formal apparatus known as the case-space model, and it invokes close ties
between theoretical and empirical work and between the study of judicial behavior and
actual legal practices and institutions. The case-space model is an adaption of standard …