Are judges political? : an empirical analysis of the federal judiciary /
Over the past two decades, the United States has seen an intense debate about the composition of the federal judiciary. Are judges "activists"? Should they stop "legislating from the bench"? Are they abusing their authority? Or are they protecting fundamental rights, in a way tha...
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Brookings Institution Press
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| Acesso em linha: | https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.7864/j.ctt12879t7 |
Sumário:
- Studying judges with numbers
- Ideological votes and ideological panels
- Nonideological voting and entrenched views
- Explaining the data : conformity, group polarization, and the rule of law
- The case of big decisions : of segregation, abortion, and obscenity
- More conservative than thou? judicial voting across circuits, across presidents, and over time
- What should be done? of politics, judging, and diversity.