The Behavior of Federal Judges : A Theoretical and Empirical Study of Rational Choice /
Judges play a central role in the American legal system, but their behavior as decision makers is not well understood, even among themselves. The system permits judges to be quite secretive (and most of them are), so indirect methods are required to make sense of their behavior. Here, a political sc...
Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
Idioma: | Inglés |
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Cambridge, MA :
Harvard University Press,
[2013]
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Tabla de Contenidos:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- List of Figures
- List of Tables
- General Introduction
- Technical Introduction
- 1. A Realistic Theory of Judicial Behavior
- 2. The Previous Empirical Literature
- 3. The Supreme Court
- 4. The Courts of Appeals
- 5. The District Courts and the Selection Effect
- 6. Dissents and Dissent Aversion
- 7. The Questioning of Lawyers at Oral Argument
- 8. The Auditioners
- Conclusion: The Way Forward
- Acknowledgments
- Index