Answering the call of the court : how justices and litigants set the Supreme Court agenda /

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Main Author: Baird, Vanessa A., 1970-
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Charlottesville : University of Virginia Press, 2006
Series:Constitutionalism and democracy
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Table of Contents:
  • The Supreme Court in the U.S. legal system : appeals and case selection
  • Explaining the Supreme Court's policy cycles
  • Immigrants' rights, welfare, and federalism
  • Cyclical patterns on the Supreme Court's agenda
  • Corroborative analyses : the political and legal context of the Supreme Court
  • The impact of moderate justices' preferences on the ideological placement of future cases