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Answering the call of the court : how justices and litigants set the Supreme Court agenda / Vanessa A. Baird.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Baird, Vanessa A., 1970-
- Series:
- Constitutionalism and democracy
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Judicial process--United States.
- Judicial process.
- Political questions and judicial power--United States.
- Political questions and judicial power.
- United States. Supreme Court.
- United States.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (241 p.)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Charlottesville : University of Virginia Press, 2007.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- Baird argues that judicial policy-making power depends on the actions of policy entrepreneurs or other litigants who systematically respond to the priorities and preferences of Supreme Court justices.
- Contents:
- Cover
- Contents
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction
- 1 The Supreme Court in the U.S. Legal System: Appeals and Case Selection
- 2 Explaining the Supreme Court's Policy Cycles
- 3 Immigrants' Rights, Welfare, and Federalism
- 4 Cyclical Patterns on the Supreme Court's Agenda
- 5 Corroborative Analyses: The Political and Legal Context of the Supreme Court
- 6 The Impact of Moderate Justices' Preferences on the Ideological Placement of Future Cases
- Conclusions
- Notes
- References
- Index
- A
- B
- C
- D
- E
- F
- G
- H
- I
- J
- K
- L
- M
- N
- O
- P
- Q
- R
- S
- T
- U
- V
- W
- Z.
- Notes:
- Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph
- Includes bibliographical references (p. [201]-217) and index.
- ISBN:
- 9780813930442
- 0813930448
- OCLC:
- 755622810
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