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The Chief Justice : appointment and influence / edited by David J. Danelski and Artemus Ward.
- Format:
- Book
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- United States. Supreme Court.
- United States.
- Genre:
- Electronic books.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource
- Place of Publication:
- Ann Arbor : University of Michigan Press, [2016]
- System Details:
- text file
- Summary:
- The Chief Justice brings together leading scholars of the courts who employ social science theory and research to explain the role of the Chief Justice of the U.S. Supreme Court. They consider the chief justice's appointment, office, powers, and influence both within the Court and in the American system of government more generally. The chief Justice presides over oral arguments and the justices' private conferences. The chief justice speaks first in those conferences, presents cases and other matters to the other justices, and assigns the Court's opinions in all cases in which the chief Justice votes with the majority. In addition, the chief Justice presides over the Judicial Conference of the United States, a policy-making body composed of lower-court federal judges. As Chief Justice Charles Evans Hughes wrote, the Chief Justice of the U.S. Supreme Court is "the most important judicial officer in the world." Book jacket.
- Contents:
- Introduction / Sheldon Goldman
- The influence of the Chief Justice in the decisional process of the Supreme Court / David J. Danelski
- An exploratory study of opinion assignment by the chief justice revisited / David J. Danelski
- The influence of the Chief Justice in the decisional process of the supreme court revisited : personality and leadership / David J. Danelski
- Selecting the chief : presidential calculation in appointing chief justices / Christine L. Nemacheck
- Confirming chiefs : ideology, opportunity, and the court's center chair / Kevin J. McMahon
- The Chief Justice and oral arguments at the U.S. Supreme Court / Timothy R. Johnson and Charles Gregory
- Forecasting opinion assignment on the U.S. Supreme Court / Paul J. Wahlbeck, Alyx Mark, Ryan Krog, and Phillip J. Wininger
- The Chief Justice and procedural power / Charles M. Cameron and Tom Clark
- Honeymoon on the court : chief justices and consensus building on the Supreme Court / Amy Steigerwalt, Pamela C. Corley, and Artemus Ward
- Genuine leader or merely "first among equals"? : probing the leadership capacity of the Chief Justice / Brandon L. Bartels and Phillip Wininger
- Herding scorpions : the Chief Justice as social leader / Ryan C. Black, Ryan J. Owens, and Justin Wedeking
- Troll-in-chief? : affective opinion content and the influence of the Chief Justice / Douglas Rice and Christopher Zorn
- Statutory interpretation and the Chief Justice : activism or judicial discretion? / Kirk A. Randazzo and Rebecca Reid
- The Chief Justice as administrative leader : explaining agenda size / Richard L. Vining Jr. and Teena Wilhelm
- Be careful with my court : legitimacy, public opinion, and the chief justices / Shawn C. Fettig and Sara C. Benesh
- Epilogue / David J. Danelski and Artemus Ward.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 417-426) and index.
- Description based on information from the publisher.
- ISBN:
- 9780472119912
- 9780472121953
- Publisher Number:
- 10.3998/mpub.5945898
- Access Restriction:
- Restricted for use by site license.
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