The editors of this timely volume announce at the outset thattheir aim is to provide a forum for recent scholarship thatreacts critically to the previous generation of behavioralistswho, since the 1950s, have analyzed the U.S. Supreme Courtas little more than an aggregate of the relatively stable andidentifiable policy preferences held by individual justices.Specifically, these essays pose a collective "response by asucceeding generation of Supreme Court scholars who aretrained in political behavioralism but who have rediscoveredthe value and importance of understanding institutionalcontexts" (p. 12).