A mere machine : the Supreme Court, Congress, and American democracy /

In this work, the author reports evidence showing that the Supreme Court is in fact extraordinarily deferential to congressional preferences in its constitutional rulings.

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Autore principale: Harvey, Anna L. (Anna Lil), 1966- (Autore)
Natura: Licensed eBooks
Lingua:inglese
Pubblicazione: New Haven : Yale University Press [2013]
Accesso online:https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.2307/j.ctt5vkwk1
Sommario:
  • The Supreme Court, Congress, and American democracy
  • The Supreme Court, the elected branches, and the Constitution
  • Estimating the effect of elected branch preferences on Supreme Court judgments
  • The puzzle of the two Rehnquist courts
  • Explaining the puzzle of the two Rehnquist courts
  • Elected branch preferences, public opinion, or socioeconomic trends?
  • Restoring the Court's missing docket
  • Misreading the Roberts court
  • What's so great about independent courts, anyway?