Popular justice : presidential prestige and executive success in the Supreme Court / Jeff Yates.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Yates, Jeff, 1965-

Series:

SUNY series on the presidency

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Judicial process--United States.

Judicial process.

Presidents--United States.

Presidents.

Executive power--United States.

Executive power.

Political questions and judicial power--United States.

Political questions and judicial power.

United States. Supreme Court.

United States.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (144 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Albany, NY : State University of New York Press, c2002.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Popular Justice explores the interaction between the presidency and the United States Supreme Court in the modern era. It assesses the fortunes of chief executives before the Court and makes the provocative argument that success is impacted by the degree of public prestige a president experiences while in office. Three discrete situations are quantitatively examined: cases involving the president's formal constitutional and statutory powers, those involving federal administrative agencies, and those that decide substantive policy issues. Yates concludes that, while other factors do exert their own influence, presidential power with the Court does depend, to a surprising degree, on the executive's current political popularity.

Contents:

Front Matter

Contents

Figures

Tables

Introduction

Presidential Prestige and Judicial Decision Making

Supreme Court Support for the Formal Constitutional and Statutory Powers of the President

Presidential Power Via the Federal Agencies

Presidential Policy Signals and Supreme Court Justice Decision Making

Conclusion

Notes

References

Index

Notes:

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Includes bibliographical references (p. 119-127) and index.

ISBN:

9780791488270

0791488276

9780585471211

0585471215

OCLC:

61367606