POLITICAL CULTURE AND JUDICIAL IDEOLOGY Some Cross- and Subcul tura l Compar i sons

was designed to be the initial stage of inquiry in a more complex program of research into the effect of cultural parameters upon judicial thinking and decision-making in countries where such influences putatively are maximal, including also Belgium, Canada, and the British Isles. But that small set of target countries by no means tolls the complete list of even European or North American polities for which bi- o r multiculturalism should be hypothesized to have a major impact upon both the structure and the process of judicial decision-making. I n fact, field research has not gone beyond what was done in Switzerland and South Africa. A book (Schubert, in preparation) will provide more detailed and extensive analyses of the attribute, decision-making, and decisional data (as well a s a reanalysis of the attitudinal data upon which the present article focuses primarily). The theory and methodology that underlie the present article have been discussed in broader comparative context in a separate monograph (Schubert, forthcoming). The subject matter investigated here is cross-cultural at several levels, and the constituent elements of precedent research that ar