Contemplating courts

Book

Contemplating courts / Lee Epstein, editor.

Epstein, Lee, 1958- (Added Author).

Record details

ISBN: 0871879832
ISBN: 9780871879837
ISBN: 0871879824
ISBN: 9780871879820
Physical Description: xix, 499 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm
Publisher: Washington, D.C. : CQ Press, ©1995.

Content descriptions

Bibliography, etc. Note:: Includes bibliographical references (pages 439-480) and index.
Formatted Contents Note:: 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.