Lawrence Baum, Neal Devins

The Company They Keep

How Partisan Divisions Came to the Supreme Court

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

The Company They Keep advances a new way of thinking about Supreme Court decision-making. In so doing, it explains why today's Supreme Court is the first ever in which lines of ideological division are also partisan lines between justices appointed by Republican and Democratic presidents.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Oxford University Press, USA
• Seitenzahl: 272
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. September 2020
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 236mm x 160mm x 23mm
• Gewicht: 454g
• ISBN-13: 9780197539156
• ISBN-10: 0197539157
• Artikelnr.: 59580747

Autorenporträt

Neal Devins is Sandra Day O'Connor Professor of Law and Professor of Government at the College of William and Mary. He is the author of numerous books and articles discussing the intersection of law and politics, including The Democratic Constitution (Oxford 2015, 2nd edition) and articles in the Yale, Stanford, Columbia, Chicago, Michigan, Pennsylvania, Virginia, and California law reviews. He has also written opinion pieces for Slate, The Washington Post, The New York Times, and The Wall Street Journal. Lawrence Baum is Professor Emeritus of Political Science at Ohio State University. He is the author of several books on judicial decision making and other topics, including Ideology in the Supreme Court (Princeton 2017), The Battle for the Court (Virginia 2017), and Judges and Their Audiences (Princeton 2006). He has published articles on a range of subjects in journals in political science and law.

Inhaltsangabe

1. Summary of Book and Argument
2. The Supreme Court and Elites
3. Elites, Ideology, and the Rise of the Modern Court
4. The Court in a Polarized World
5. Conclusions