Contemplating courts. (1995)

• Record Type: Book
• Further Information: Note: Lee Epstein, editor.
• Other Names: Epstein, Lee, 1958-
• Contents: Studying law and courts / Lee Epstein -- Electing judges / Lawrence Baum -- Lobbying for justice : the rise of organized conflict in the politics of federal judgeships / Gregory A. Caldeira and John R. Wright -- Capital investments in the U.S. Supreme Court : winning with Washington representation / Kevin T. McGuire -- The mysterious case of establishment clause litigation : how organized litigants foiled legal change / Joseph F. Kobylka -- Plea bargaining and local legal culture / Thomas W. Church -- Imagined pasts : sexualized violence and the revision of truth / Kim Lane Scheppele -- The fired football coach (or, how trial courts make policy) / Lynn Mather -- Patterns of appellate litigation, 1945-1990 / Christine B. Harrington and Daniel S. Ward -- Decision making on the U.S. courts of appeals / Jeffrey A. Segal, Donald R. Songer, and Charles M. Cameron. The dynamics and determinants of agenda change in the Rehnquist Court / Richard L. Pacelle, Jr. -- By consent of the governed : directions in constitutional theory / Leslie Friedman Goldstein -- The attitudinal model / Harold J. Spaeth -- The role of the Supreme Court in American society : playing the reconstruction game / Lee Epstein and Thomas G. Walker -- Media, knowledge, and public evaluations of the Supreme Court / Charles H. Franklin and Liane C. Kosaki -- Do court decisions matter? / Lauren Bowen -- The real world of constitutional rights : the Supreme Court and the implementation of the abortion decisions / Gerald N. Rosenberg.
• Publisher Details: Washington DC : CQ Press
• Publication Date: 1995
• Extent: 1 online resource (419 pages)
• Subjects: 347.73/1 347.3071; Judicial process -- United States; Justice, Administration of -- United States; Courts -- United States; Courts; Judicial process; Justice, Administration of; Rechterlijke instanties; Rechtspleging; Supreme Court (VS); United States
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9781483304526; 1483304523
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