| Book Review | The American Historical Review, 112.3

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Book Review

Canada and the United States

Ronald Kahn and Ken I. Kersch, editors. The Supreme Court and American Political Development. Lawrence: University Press of Kansas. 2006. Pp. x, 494. Cloth $40.00, paper $19.95.

Historians' openness to interdisciplinary theories and methods is longstanding. Drawing on Karen Orren and Stephen Skowronek's work on state-building, the contributors to Ronald Kahn and Ken I. Kersch's edited collection offer new analyses and narratives connecting American political development and the Supreme Court. The "new institutionalism" that historians associate with Orren and Skowronek influences the conception of American political development articulated in the editor's introduction and carried through in the case studies that follow. Still, although each essay argues well the virtues of adhering to historical time, citations to historical literature are exceptional. Indeed, Kahn and Kersch target political science and legal policy studies that explain Supreme Court decisionmaking as the reflection of the judge's behavioral attitudes or party identification.

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