Battle over the bench : senators, interest groups, and lower court confirmations / Amy Steigerwalt.
Saved in:
| Online Access: |
Full Text (via ProQuest) |
|---|---|
| Main Author: | |
| Format: | eBook |
| Language: | English |
| Published: |
Charlottesville, Va. :
University of Virginia Press,
2010.
|
| Edition: | 1st ed. |
| Series: | Constitutionalism and democracy.
|
| Subjects: |
Table of Contents:
- Introduction : the changing tone of lower federal court confirmations
- What makes a nomination run into trouble? : Senators, Interest Groups, and the four tracks to confirmation
- Death to nominees : senatorial courtesy and the ability to "kill" judicial confirmations
- "Herding cats" : holds and private political fights
- Interest groups and judicial confirmation : a view from the Senate
- Interest groups and the decision to object : sending confirmations down the public partisan track
- Whither nominees? : the fate of nominations sent down the public partisan track
- Conclusion : what the future holds for lower court nominations and the Senate confirmation process
- Appendix A. : Data collection methodology
- Appendix B. : Variable descriptions and measurements for Tobit Regressions
- Appendix C. : Circuit Court nominations opposed by interest groups, 99th-109th Congresses (1985-2006)