The Oxford handbook of U.S. judicial behavior /

"[This book offers] an introduction and analysis of research regarding decision making by judges serving on federal and state courts in the U.S...[This handbook] describes and explains how the courts' political and social context, formal institutional structures, and informal norms affect...

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Other Authors: Epstein, Lee, 1958-, Lindquist, Stefanie A., 1963-
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Oxford, United Kingdom : Oxford University Press, 2017
Edition:First edition
Series:Oxford handbooks of American politics
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Table of Contents:
  • Appointing Federal Judges / Nancy Scherer
  • Appointing Supreme Court Justices / Christine L. Nemacheck
  • Judicial elections : judges and their "New-Style" constituencies / James L. Gibson and Michael J. Nelson
  • Federal judicial tenure / Albert Yoon
  • Law clerks / Artemus Ward
  • Gatekeeping and filtering in Trial Courts / Christina L. Boyd
  • Access to intermediate appellate Courts / Donald R Songer and Susan B Haire
  • Agenda-setting on the U.S. Supreme Court / Ryan J. Owens and James Sieja
  • Courtroom proceedings in U.S. Federal Courts / Timothy R. Johnson
  • Opinion writing / Pamela C. Corley
  • Vertical Stare Decisis / Thomas G. Hansford
  • Law in judicial decision-making / David Klein
  • The strategic analysis of judicial behavior and the separation of powers / Chad L. Westerland
  • Judicial review / Tom Clark
  • The role of personal attributes and social backgrounds on judging / Tracy E. George and Taylor Grace Weaver
  • Ideology and partisanship / Justine D'Ella-Kueper and Jeffrey A. Segal
  • The economic analysis of judicial behavior / Lee Epstein and Jack Knight
  • Judges and their audiences / Lawrence Baum
  • Interest groups and the judiciary / Jared Perkins and Paul M. Collins, Jr.
  • The relationship between courts and legislatures / Thomas M. Keck
  • Courts and executives / Jeffrey L. Yates and Scott Boddery
  • Covering the Courts / Rorie Solberg
  • The Supreme Court and public opinion / Joseph Daniel Ura and Alison Higgins Merrill
  • Judicial impact / Matthew E.K. Hall
  • Cognition in the Courts : analyzing the use of experiments to study legal decision-making / Eileen Braman
  • New Measurement technologies : a review and application to Nuremberg and Justice Jackson / Daniel E. Ho and Michael Morse
  • The use of observational data to study law and the judiciary / Sara C. Benesh