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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Autor Principal: Baum, Lawrence
Formato: Licensed eBooks
Idioma:inglés
Publicado: Princeton, N.J. ; Woodstock : Princeton University Press 2008.
Acceso en liña: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.