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The Solicitor General and the United States Supreme Court : executive branch influence and judicial decisions /
This book examines whether and how the Office of the Solicitor General influences the United States Supreme Court.
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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New York :
Cambridge University Press,
2012.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Cover; THE SOLICITOR GENERAL AND THE UNITED STATES SUPREME COURT; Title; Copyright; Dedication; Contents; Acknowledgments; 1: The Solicitor General and the Supreme Court; GOAL OF THE BOOK; OUTLINE OF THE BOOK; 2: The Office of the Solicitor General: "The Finest Law Firm in the Nation''; CREATING THE OFFICE; ORGANIZATION OF THE SOLICITOR GENERAL'S OFFICE; FUNCTIONS OF THE SOLICITOR GENERAL; Centralization; Representation; SOLICITOR GENERAL SUCCESS; 3: Explanations for Solicitor General Success; THEORIES OF SOLICITOR GENERAL SUCCESS.
- The Solicitor General as Agent of the Court. . .or Consummate Legal Professional?The Solicitor General as Repeat Player; Repeat Players and Experience before the Court; Repeat Players and Resource Advantages; Repeat Players and Truthful Information; The OSG as a Repeat Player; The Quality of OSG Attorneys; The Solicitor General as an Ideological Actor; The Solicitor General and the Separation of Powers; Selection Strategy; WHAT DO THESE THEORIES TELL US ABOUT SOLICITOR GENERAL INFLUENCE?; SUMMARY; 4: Solicitor General Influence and Agenda Setting; THE SUPREME COURT'S AGENDA STAGE.
- THEORY AND HYPOTHESESGeneral Ideological Agreement; Specific Policy Agreement; Legal Agreement; The Conditional Relationship among General, Specific, and Legal Agreement; MEASURES AND DATA; General Agreement; Specific Agreement; Legal Considerations; Controls; METHODS AND RESULTS; DISCUSSION; 5: Solicitor General Influence and Merits Outcomes; COARSENED EXACT MATCHING: A PRIMER; DATA, MEASUREMENT, AND MATCHING; Attorney Experience; Net Resource Advantage; Net Number of Supporting Amicus Briefs; Petitioner Status; Ideological Congruence with the Court; METHODS AND RESULTS; DISCUSSION.
- 6: Solicitor General Influence and BriefsA SHORT HISTORY OF SUPREME COURT BRIEFS; DATA, MEASUREMENT, AND MATCHING; Brief Clarity; Attorney Experience; Case Salience; Information Quantity; METHODS AND RESULTS; Author Identity and Language Borrowing; Winning Status and Language Borrowing; Author Identity, Winning Status, and Language Borrowing; Author Identity, Winning (or Losing) Status, Mode of Participation, and Language Borrowing; DISCUSSION; 7: Solicitor General Influence and Legal Doctrine; STARE DECISIS AND THE EVOLUTION OF LEGAL DOCTRINE; Doctrinal Development and Justices' Preferences.
- Doctrinal Development, Preferences, and External ConstraintsDATA, MEASUREMENT, AND MATCHING; Precedent Vitality; Ideological Distance; Inward Centrality; Number of Opinions; METHODS AND RESULTS; DISCUSSION; 8: Conclusion; SOLICITOR GENERAL INFLUENCE; THE EXPLANATION FOR SOLICITOR GENERAL INFLUENCE; Appendices; APPENDIX TO CHAPTER 4: SOLICITOR GENERAL INFLUENCE AND AGENDA SETTING; Operationalizing the Separation of Powers; Model Parameter Estimates; Evidence of CVSG Case Importance; Justices' CVSG Voting Behavior; Front-Page Coverage by the New York Times; Final Merits Coalition Sizes.