Judges and their audiences : a perspective on judicial behavior /
What motivates judges as decision makers? Political scientist Lawrence Baum offers a new perspective on this crucial question, a perspective based on judges' interest in the approval of audiences important to them. The conventional scholarly wisdom holds that judges on higher courts seek only t...
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| Language: | English |
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Princeton, N.J. ; Woodstock :
Princeton University Press
2008.
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| Online Access: | https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.2307/j.ctt7svjk |
Table of Contents:
- List of Tables; Preface; Acknowledgments; CHAPTER 1 Thinking about Judicial Behavior; CHAPTER 2 Judging as Self-Presentation; CHAPTER 3 Court Colleagues, the Public, and the Other Branches of Government; CHAPTER 4 Social and Professional Groups; CHAPTER 5 Policy Groups, the News Media, and the Greenhouse Effect; CHAPTER 6 Implications for the Study of Judicial Behavior; References; Name Index; Subject and Case Index.