Supreme Court Confirmation Hearings in the U.S. Senate : Reconsidering the Charade /

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Critics claim that Supreme Court nominees have become more evasive in recent decades and that Senate confirmation hearings lack real substance. Conducting a line-by-line analysis of the confirmation hearing of every nominee since 1955-an original dataset of nearly 11,000 questions and answers from t...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Autores principales: Farganis, Dion (Autor), Wedeking, Justin (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Ann Arbor : The University of Michigan Press, [2014]
Colección:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Temas:
United States. > Supreme Court.
United States. > Congress. > Senate. > Committee on the Judiciary.
États-Unis. > Supreme Court > Fonctionnaires > Selection et nomination.
United States. > Supreme Court > Officials and employees > Selection and appointment.
Law - U.S. - General.
Law, Politics & Government.
Law - U.S.
Legislative hearings.
Judges > Selection and appointment.
POLITICAL SCIENCE > American Government > Judicial Branch.
POLITICAL SCIENCE > Government > Legislative Branch.
Commissions parlementaires > Audiences > États-Unis.
Legislative hearings > United States.
Judges > Selection and appointment > United States.
United States.
Electronic books.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • A vapid and hollow charade?
  • The hearings in historical perspective
  • Coding the hearings
  • Are Supreme Court nominees forthcoming?
  • Polarized and televised: changes in committee voting since 1981
  • The perception gap
  • Can the hearings be improved? Do they need to be?

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