The Politics of Precedent on the US Supreme Court (Book Review‪)‬

THE POLITICS OF PRECEDENT ON THE U.S. SUPREME COURT. By Thomas G. Hansford & James F. Spriggs II. Princeton University Press. 2006. Pp. 155. $29.95. The Politics of Precedent on the U.S. Supreme Court (1) is an ambitious work. The authors, Thomas G. Hansford, Assistant Professor of Political Science at the University of South Carolina, and James F. Spriggs II, Associate Professor of Political Science at the University of California-Davis, address a profound and important question: "Why and when will the U.S. Supreme Court alter the meaning of one of its precedents by ... interpreting it," positively or negatively? (2)