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The Constrained Court
How do Supreme Court justices decide their cases? Do they follow their policy preferences? Or are they constrained by the law and by other political actors? The Constrained Court combines new theoretical insights and extensive data analysis to show that law and politics together shape the behavior of justices on the Supreme Court. Michael Bailey and Forrest Maltzman show how two types of constraints have influenced the decision making of the modern Court. First, Bailey and Maltzman document that important legal doctrines, such as respect for precedents, have influenced every justice since 1950. The authors find considerable variation in how these doctrines affect each justice, variation due ...
Rehnquist Justice
With seven of its justices appointed by Republican presidents, today's Supreme Court has significantly altered America's legal landscape since 1986 by tilting constitutional jurisprudence to the right. That was the goal of Presidents Reagan and Bush in filling court vacancies and has been felt in cases related to federalism, economic rights, and affirmative action. However, liberal issues such as abortion have moved only marginally to the right, while rulings by the Court on school prayer and gay rights have moved constitutional doctrine slightly to the left. In this collection of original articles, prominent constitutional scholars are joined by new voices from the cutting edge of academia ...
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The Supreme Court
The Supreme Court provides a complete concise guide to how the Supreme Court operates today -- appropriate for all readers from novices to experts in the field. Baum examines how the Court determines which cases it accepts for decision, its decision-making process, the policies it makes, and the impact of its decisions on American society. This new edition highlights: the Court's move to the political center -- especially the influence of Breyer, Ginsburg and Souter; important trends in the Court's operations and decision making; and Web access to Court decisions.
Responsible Partisanship?
More than fifty years have passed since the American Political Science Association published "Toward a More Responsible Two-Party System," a controversial report that addressed the lack of national cohesion within the major parties. Although parties have changed a great deal since then, they remain a critical component of American democracy. While the possibilities and limits of responsible party government have been central topics in the literature since 1950, this book is the first to reassess all aspects of the APSA report. Here a distinguished group of scholars—among them Charles O. Jones, Barbara Sinclair, Frank J. Sorauf, John Bibby, and Gerald Pomper—examine the effectiveness, acc...
Law Clerks, Support Personnel, and the Decline of Consensual Norms on the United States Supreme Court, 1935-1995
Several commentators have noted the tendency of the U.S. Supreme Court to produce a higher number of non-consensual opinions than other courts. Best (political science, Buena Vista U.) applies an institutional perspective to examine the impact of growing numbers of law clerks and other support personnel on the issuance of non- consensual opinions. He suggests that the law clerks serve to isolate the justices from each other, therefore leading to a rise in dissenting and concurring opinions. Multiple regression equations and other quantitative methods are applied to the history of the court in order to test the thesis and fail to find substantive correlation, but Best argues the evidence does show that changes in the number of opinion can be related to caseload and changes in the occupant of the chief justice's seat. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR.
