Glendon A. Schubert

Glendon A. Schubert (1918-2006) was a professor and author of political science who served on the faculties of Syracuse University and the University of Hawaiʻi. Schubert was largely responsible for creating two subdisciplines within political science i.e. judicial behavior and biopolitical behavior. He has written many books and journals on these aspects of political science, and is internationally recognized as one of the leading authorities on judicial decision making behavior.

Early life

Schubert was born in Oneida, New York on June 7, 1918. He attended Syracuse University where he received his AB (magna cum laude) in English and Mathematics in 1940 and a PhD in political science in 1948. He served in the United States Army Signal Corps (Intelligence) from 1942 to 1946 as a first lieutenant and was awarded a Bronze Star Medal. Schubert married Natalie Klavans. whose marriage brought five children, one of whom was his son James, who was an accomplished political scientist in his own right who died of a brain tumor in 2005.[1]

Academic career

Schubert devoted much research into the phenomena of judicial behavior area regarding the values, opinions and attitudes of judges and how it effected their decision making. This often proved to be a controversial and often-denied position, but in time Schubert established its validity and importance in defining judicial behavior. Realizing that there was a biological basis for all human behavior, Schubert, who had already established himself as an accomplished political scientist, and was an internationally recognized expert on judicial behavior, devoted two years of study to the life sciences with the idea that it would give him greater insights into human behavior. His pursuit began in 1977 at the Zoological Laboratory of the Biological Center of the University of Groningen, Holland, and then from 1978-1979 at Wassenaar, Holland at the Netherlands Institute for Advanced Study in Humanities and Social Sciences. After completing his studies in Europe he continued his research and writings in the field of judicial behavior, with increased focus on the life sciences as it effected judicial behavior.[1][2]

Works

Schubert's major premise, and the reason for his work, Quantitative Analysis of Judicial Behavior (1959), and other such works, was due to the lack of investigations in Political science, into "the decision making behavior of judges."[3] His works include:[1]

  • "The Public Interest" In Administrative Decision-Making: Theorem, Theosophy, or Theory? (1957) – JSTOR 1952196
  • The Presidency in the courts (1957)
  • The Theory of "The Public Interest" in Judicial Decision-Making (1958) – JSTOR 2109163
  • The Study of Judicial Decision-Making as an Aspect of Political Behavior (1958) – JSTOR 1951981
  • Quantitative Analysis of Judicial Behavior (1959)
  • Constitutional Politics: The Political Behavior of Supreme Court Justices and the Constitutional Policies That They Make (1960)
  • The 1960 Term of the Supreme Court: A Psychological Analysis (1965) – JSTOR 1953099
  • Judicial Decision-Making (1963)
  • Measuring Malapportionment (1964) – JSTOR 1952864
  • Judicial Policy-Making (1965)
  • Jackson's Judicial Philosophy: An Exploration in Value Analysis (1965) – JSTOR 1953215
  • The judicial mind : the attitudes and idealogies of Supreme Court justices, 1946-1963 (1965)
  • Reapportionment (1965)
  • Behavioral Jurisprudence (1968) – JSTOR 3052896
  • Comparative judicial behavior; cross-cultural studies of political decision-making in the East and West - coauthored (1969)
  • The Judicial Mind: The Attitudes and Ideologies of Supreme Court Justices (1965)
  • The constitutional polity (1970)
  • The Judicial Mind Reappraised (1975) – JSTOR 29761498
  • Political Attitudes and Ideologies: A Cross-Cultural Interdisciplinary Approach (1977)
  • Comparative Judicial Study (1981)
  • Politics as a Life Science (1982)
  • Politics and the Evolution of Inquiry in Political Science - coauthored (1982) – JSTOR 4235292
  • The Evolution of Political Science: Paradigms of Physics, Biology, and Politics (1983) – JSTOR 4235317
  • Political Culture and Judicial Behavior, in two volumes (1985).
  • Evolutionary politics (1989)
  • Sexual politics and political feminism (1991)

Schubert was awarded the Lifetime Career Achievement Award in 1994 from the Association for Politics and the Life Sciences He was considered to be the most creative and influential political scientists of the mid-20th century. He died on January 15, 2006, in Seattle, Washington.[1]

Citations
  1. University of Hawaiʻi, Schubert profile
  2. Johnson, 2011, pages 43-64
  3. Rogers, book review, 1961, pp. 308-311

Sources
  • Johnson, Gary R. (Fall 2011). "Politics and the life sciences: An unfinished revolution". Politics and the Life Sciences. Cambridge University Press. 30 (2): 43–64. JSTOR 23359799.
  • Rogers, Lindsay (February 1961). "Reviewed Work: Quantitative Analysis of Judicial Behavior by Glendon A. Schubert". Columbia Law Review. Columbia Law Review. Columbia Law Review Association, Inc. 61 (2): 308–311. doi:10.2307/1120076. JSTOR 1120076.
  • "UH Mānoa mourns passing of retired political science professor Glendon Schubert". University of Hawaiʻi. Retrieved May 6, 2023.
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