The Judicial Tug of War : How Lawyers, Politicians, and Ideological Incentives Shape the American Judiciary Hardback
by Adam (Stanford University, California) Bonica, Maya (Harvard University, Massachusetts) Sen
Part of the Political Economy of Institutions and Decisions series
Hardback
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Why have conservatives decried 'activist judges'? And why have liberals - and America's powerful legal establishment - emphasized qualifications and experience over ideology?
This transformative text tackles these questions with a new framework for thinking about the nation's courts, 'the judicial tug of war', which not only explains current political clashes over America's courts, but also powerfully predicts the composition of courts moving forward.
As the text demonstrates through novel quantitative analyses, a greater ideological rift between politicians and legal elites leads politicians to adopt measures that put ideology and politics front and center - for example, judicial elections.
On the other hand, ideological closeness between politicians and the legal establishment leads legal elites to have significant influence on the selection of judges.
Ultimately, the judicial tug of war makes one point clear: for good or bad, politics are critical to how judges are selected and whose interests they ultimately represent.
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- Format:Hardback
- Pages:334 pages, Worked examples or Exercises
- Publisher:Cambridge University Press
- Publication Date:17/12/2020
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- ISBN:9781108841368
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Out of stock
- Format:Hardback
- Pages:334 pages, Worked examples or Exercises
- Publisher:Cambridge University Press
- Publication Date:17/12/2020
- Category:
- ISBN:9781108841368
