Harold J. Spaeth, Jeffrey A. Segal

Majority Rule or Minority Will

Adherence to Precedence on the U.S. Supreme Court

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Produktbeschreibung

Examines the influence of precedent on the behavior of the US Supreme Court justices.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 378
• Erscheinungstermin: 28. Mai 2013
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 235mm x 157mm x 27mm
• Gewicht: 765g
• ISBN-13: 9780521624244
• ISBN-10: 052162424X
• Artikelnr.: 22116891

Inhaltsangabe

List of tables and figures
Preface
1. Precedent and the Court
2. Measuring precedential behavior
3. Precedential behavior from the beginning through the Chase Court
4. Precedential behavior bridging the 19th and 20th centuries
5. Precedential behavior in the Hughes, Stone, and Vinson courts
6. Precedential behavior in the Warren court
7. Precedential behavior in the Burger Court
8. Precedential behavior in the Rehnquist court
9. The Supreme court and state decisions
10. Conclusions
List of references
Case index
Subject/name index.