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  • Constitutional Powers and Politics

    How Citizens Think about Authority and Institutional Change

    by Eileen Braman ...
    Series series Constitutionalism and Democracy
    The relationship between public opinion and the actions of institutions such as the Supreme Court has come under increased scrutiny in recent years. In this timely book, Eileen Braman explores how American citizens think about government across all three branches, applying a rigorous political scientific methodology to explore why citizens may support potentially risky changes to our governing ... Read more

    $29.99 USD

  • Law, Politics, and Perception

    How Policy Preferences Influence Legal Reasoning

    by Eileen Braman ...
    Series series Constitutionalism and Democracy
    Are judges' decisions more likely to be based on personal inclinations or legal authority? The answer, Eileen Braman argues, is both. Law, Politics, and Perception brings cognitive psychology to bear on the question of the relative importance of norms of legal reasoning versus decision markers' policy preferences in legal decision-making. While Braman acknowledges that decision makers' attitudes ... Read more

    $51.29 USD

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  • Electing Judges

    The Surprising Effects of Campaigning on Judicial Legitimacy

    by James L. Gibson ...
    Series series Chicago Studies in American Politics
    A revealing and provocative study of the effects of judicial elections on state courts and public perceptions of impartiality.In Electing Judges, leading judicial politics scholar James L. Gibson responds to the growing concern that the realities of campaigning are undermining judicial independence and even the rule of law. Armed with empirical evidence, Gibson offers the most systematic and ... Read more

    $14.39 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Backlash Against the ADA

    Reinterpreting Disability Rights

    Edited by Linda Hamilton Krieger ...
    Series series Corporealities: Discourses Of Disability
    For civil rights lawyers who toiled through the 1980s in the increasingly barren fields of race and sex discrimination law, the approval of the Americans with Disabilities Act in 1990 by a nearly unanimous U.S. House and Senate and a Republican President seemed almost fantastic. Within five years of the Act's effective date, however, observers were warning of an unfolding assault on the ADA by ... Read more

    $25.19 USD

  • The Silent Sex

    Gender, Deliberation, and Institutions

    by Christopher F. Karpowitz, Tali Mendelberg ...
    Do women participate in and influence meetings equally with men? Does gender shape how a meeting is run and whose voices are heard? The Silent Sex shows how the gender composition and rules of a deliberative body dramatically affect who speaks, how the group interacts, the kinds of issues the group takes up, whose voices prevail, and what the group ultimately decides. It argues that efforts to ... Read more

    $33.89 USD

  • What's Law Got to Do With It?

    What Judges Do, Why They Do It, and What's at Stake

    Edited by Charles Gardner Geyh ...
    Series series Stanford Studies in Law and Politics
    In What's Law Got to Do With It?, the nation's top legal scholars and political scientists examine to what extent the law actually shapes how judges behave and make decisions, and what it means for society at large.Although there is a growing consensus among legal scholars and political scientists, significant points of divergence remain. Contributors to this book explore ways to reach greater ... Read more

    $28.69 USD

  • From Politics to the Pews

    How Partisanship and the Political Environment Shape Religious Identity

    by Michele F. Margolis ...
    One of the most substantial divides in American politics is the "God gap." Religious voters tend to identify with and support the Republican Party, while secular voters generally support the Democratic Party. Conventional wisdom suggests that religious differences between Republicans and Democrats have produced this gap, with voters sorting themselves into the party that best represents their ... Read more

    $14.39 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Routledge Handbook of Judicial Behavior

    Edited by Kirk A. Randazzo, Robert M. Howard ...
    Interest in social science and empirical analyses of law, courts and specifically the politics of judges has never been higher or more salient. Consequently, there is a strong need for theoretical work on the research that focuses on courts, judges and the judicial process. The Routledge Handbook of Judicial Behavior provides the most up to date examination of scholarship across the entire ... Read more

    $67.99 USD

  • The Closed Partisan Mind

    A New Psychology of American Polarization

    by Matthew D. Luttig ...
    The Closed Partisan Mind traces the roots of partisan polarization to psychological closed-mindedness in the electorate and the changing perception of politics created by polarized political leaders and the new media environment. American politics today can be defined by the intense and increasingly toxic divide between Democrats and Republicans. Matthew D. Luttig explores why so many Americans ... Read more

    $25.69 USD

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  • Implicit Racial Bias across the Law

    Edited by Justin D. Levinson, Robert J. Smith ...
    Despite cultural progress in reducing overt acts of racism, stark racial disparities continue to define American life. This book is for anyone who wonders why race still matters and is interested in what emerging social science can contribute to the discussion. The book explores how scientific evidence on the human mind might help to explain why racial equality is so elusive. This new evidence ... Read more

    $30.39 USD

  • The Oxford Handbook of U.S. Judicial Behavior

    Edited by Lee Epstein, Stefanie A. Lindquist ...
    Series series Oxford Handbooks
    The Oxford Handbook of U.S. Judicial Behavior offers readers a comprehensive introduction and analysis of research regarding decision making by judges serving on federal and state courts in the U.S. Featuring contributions from leading scholars in the field, the Handbook describes and explains how the courts' political and social context, formal institutional structures, and informal norms affect ... Read more

    $136.79 USD

  • Education, Justice & Democracy

    Edited by Danielle Allen, Rob Reich ...
    Education is a contested topic, and not just politically. For years scholars have approached it from two different points of view: one empirical, focused on explanations for student and school success and failure, and the other philosophical, focused on education's value and purpose within the larger society. Rarely have these separate approaches been brought into the same conversation. Education, ... Read more

    $12.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus