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A Mere Machine : The Supreme Court, Congress, and American Democracy / Anna Harvey.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Harvey, Anna, Author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- United States. Supreme Court.
- United States.
- Judicial power--United States.
- Judicial power.
- Judicial independence--United States.
- Judicial independence.
- Separation of powers--United States.
- Separation of powers.
- Political questions and judicial power--United States.
- Political questions and judicial power.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (385 p.)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- New Haven, CT : Yale University Press, [2013]
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- In this work, Anna Harvey reports evidence showing that the Supreme Court is in fact extraordinarily deferential to congressional preferences in its constitutional rulings.
- Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Preface: "A Mere Machine"
- 1. The Supreme Court, Congress, and American Democracy
- 2. The Supreme Court, the Elected Branches, and the Constitution
- 3. Estimating the Effect of Elected Branch Preferences on Supreme Court Judgments
- 4. The Puzzle of the Two Rehnquist Courts
- 5. Explaining the Puzzle of the Two Rehnquist Courts
- 6. Elected Branch Preferences, Public Opinion, or Socioeconomic Trends?
- 7. Restoring the Court's Missing Docket
- 8. Misreading the Roberts Court
- 9. What's so Great About Independent Courts, Anyway?
- Notes
- Index
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 24. Apr 2020)
- ISBN:
- 9780300199192
- 0300199198
- OCLC:
- 862746624
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