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Law, politics, & perception : how policy preferences influence legal reasoning / Eileen Braman.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Braman, Eileen.
- Series:
- Constitutionalism and democracy
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Law--United States--Methodology.
- Law.
- Psychological aspects.
- United States.
- Methodology.
- Judicial process--United States.
- Judicial process.
- Political questions and judicial power--United States.
- Political questions and judicial power.
- Law--United States--Psychological aspects.
- Physical Description:
- xxi, 231 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm.
- Other Title:
- Law, politics, and perception
- Place of Publication:
- Charlottesville : University of Virginia Press, 2009.
- Contents:
- Outlining a theory of motivated cognition in legal decision making
- A motivated reasoning approach to the commerce clause interpretation of the Rehnquist court
- Seeing what they want? : analogical perceptions in discrimination disputes / with Thomas E. Nelson
- Reasoning on the threshold : testing the separability of preferences in legal decision making
- Justifying outcomes? : how legal decision makers explain threshold decisions
- Motivated reasoning as an empirical framework : finding our way back to context.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages [213]-221) and index.
- ISBN:
- 9780813928296
- 081392829X
- 9780813928371
- 0813928370
- OCLC:
- 302414753
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