About the Author

C. Herman Pritchett (1907-1995) was for generations a Professor of Political Science at the University of Chicago and for 13 years the Chair of its renowned department of political science, and was former president of the American Political Science Association. He also taught at the University of California-Santa Barbara and Stanford. His books include Congress versus the Supreme Court; Courts, Judges and Politics (with Walter Murphy); The American Constitution; and The American Constitutional System. With this book and other oft-cited research, he became universally recognized as one of modern political science's founding figures: the originator of the empirical study of judicial behavior.