Politics and judgment in federal district courts /

Politics and judgment in federal district courts / C.K. Rowland, Robert A. Carp.

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Are appointment politics and court decisions linked? Do presidents use judicial appointments to shape their policy agendas? C. K. Rowland and Robert A. Carp provide definitive answers to these questions and, in the process, offer a new paradigm for the study of judicial fact finding. Working from in...

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Main Author: Rowland, C. K., 1943-
Other Authors: Carp, Robert A., 1943-
Other title:Politics & judgment in federal district courts.
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Lawrence, Kan. : University Press of Kansas, ℗♭1996.
Subjects:
District courts > United States.
Political questions and judicial power > United States.
Judges > Selection and appointment > United States.
District courts.
Judges > Selection and appointment.
Political questions and judicial power.
United States.
Table of Contents:
  • U.S. TRIAL JUDGE DECISION MAKING
  • THE INFLUENCE OF THE APPOINTING PRESIDENT AND POLITICAL PARTY AFFILIATION ON DISTRICT JUDGE VOTING BEHAVIOR
  • THE INFLUENCE OF GEOGRAPHIC FACTORS ON JUDICIAL VOTING PATTERNS
  • THE POLITICS OF HOME-STATE RECRUITMENT
  • APPOINTMENT EFFECTS ON UNPUBLISHED DECISIONS
  • A CRITIQUE OF BEHAVIORAL MODELS OF TRIAL JUDGING
  • TOWARD A COGNITIVE APPROACH FOR UNDERSTANDING JUDICIAL JUDGMENT.

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