Friends of the Supreme Court: Interest Groups and Judicial Decision MakingOxford University Press, 2008 M08 15 - 248 páginas The U.S. Supreme Court is a public policy battleground in which organized interests attempt to etch their economic, legal, and political preferences into law through the filing of amicus curiae ("friend of the court") briefs. In Friends of the Supreme Court: Interest Groups and Judicial Decision Making, Paul M. Collins, Jr. explores how organized interests influence the justices' decision making, including how the justices vote and whether they choose to author concurrences and dissents. Collins presents theories of judicial choice derived from disciplines as diverse as law, marketing, political science, and social psychology. This theoretically rich and empirically rigorous treatment of decision-making on the nation's highest court, which represents the most comprehensive examination ever undertaken of the influence of U.S. Supreme Court amicus briefs, provides clear evidence that interest groups play a significant role in shaping the justices' choices. |
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... Political questions and judicial power—United States. I. Title. KF8742.C62 2008 347.73'26—dc22 2008021582. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 Printed in the United States of America on acid-free paper Note to ...
... Political questions and judicial power—United States. I. Title. KF8742.C62 2008 347.73'26—dc22 2008021582. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 Printed in the United States of America on acid-free paper Note to ...
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... political science as an undergraduate. I entered “Da U” with an interest in the law that the faculty in the Departments of Political Science and Criminal Justice turned into an obsession. Indeed, it was at Scranton where I first came ...
... political science as an undergraduate. I entered “Da U” with an interest in the law that the faculty in the Departments of Political Science and Criminal Justice turned into an obsession. Indeed, it was at Scranton where I first came ...
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... Political Science at the University of North Texas afforded me course reductions and a collegial working environment for which I am extremely thankful. The dissertation on which portions of this book are based received the 2006 Council ...
... Political Science at the University of North Texas afforded me course reductions and a collegial working environment for which I am extremely thankful. The dissertation on which portions of this book are based received the 2006 Council ...
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... Political Science Association (2005), and Southern Political Science Association (2004, 2006). Special thanks go to the many colleagues who offered comments and critiques of those incarnations of this work. I am particularly grateful to ...
... Political Science Association (2005), and Southern Political Science Association (2004, 2006). Special thanks go to the many colleagues who offered comments and critiques of those incarnations of this work. I am particularly grateful to ...
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... political, and social agendas acts as a challenge to the idealistic view of judges as almost omniscient decision makers who are so well versed in the corpus of law that the very idea of needing outside assistance to render their ...
... political, and social agendas acts as a challenge to the idealistic view of judges as almost omniscient decision makers who are so well versed in the corpus of law that the very idea of needing outside assistance to render their ...
Contenido
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2 Interest Group Litigation | 17 |
3 Amicus Curiae Participation in the Supreme Court | 37 |
4 Amici Curiae and Judicial Decision Making | 75 |
5 Amici Curiae and the Consistency of Judicial Decision Making | 115 |
6 Amici Curiae and Dissensus on the Supreme Court | 139 |
7 Conclusions and Implications | 165 |
Data and Data Reliability | 187 |
References | 197 |
Table of Cases | 221 |
Index | 225 |
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