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American politicians confront the court : opposition politics and changing responses to judicial power / Stephen M. Engel.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Engel, Stephen M.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Political questions and judicial power--United States.
- Political questions and judicial power.
- United States.
- United States--Politics and government.
- Politics and government.
- Physical Description:
- x, 395 pages ; 25 cm
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Cambridge University Press, 2011.
- Summary:
- Engel examines changing politicians' perceptions of the threat posed by opposition and how it influenced manipulations of judicial authority.
- Contents:
- Beyond the countermajoritarian difficulty
- A developmental theory of politician's confrontations with judicial authority
- In support of Unified Governance : undermining the court in an anti-party age
- Party against partisanship : single-party constitutionalism and the quest for regime unity
- "As party exigencies require" : republicanism, loyal opposition, and the emerging legitimacy of multiple constitutional visions
- Clashing progressive solutions to the political problem of judicial power
- A polity fully-developed for harnessing (I) : living constitutionalism and the politicization of judicial appointment
- A polity fully-developed for harnessing (II) : a conservative insurgency and a self-stylized majoritarian court responds.
- Notes:
- Includes index.
- ISBN:
- 9780521192958
- 0521192951
- 9780521153980
- 0521153980
- OCLC:
- 696942397
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