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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.
- Constitutionalism and democracy
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Law--United States--Methodology.
- Law.
- 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:
- 1 online resource (257 p.)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Other Title:
- Law, politics, and perception
- Place of Publication:
- Charlottesville : University of Virginia Press, 2009.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- Objective case facts and accepted norms of legal reasoning can often inhibit decision makers' ability to reach conclusions consistent with their preferences.
- 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:
- Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 9786613585530
- 9781280490309
- 1280490306
- 9780813928371
- 0813928370
- OCLC:
- 753977975
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