Research Handbook on Judicial Politics

Name: Research Handbook on Judicial Politics
Brand: Edward Elgar Publishing
SKU: 9781035309313
Price: 3039.01 HKD
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Author: Michael P. Fix; Matthew Montgomery
ISBN: 9781035309313

Edited by Michael P. Fix · Matthew Montgomery

Edward Elgar Publishing September 2024

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ISBN-13: 9781035309313
Publisher: Edward Elgar Publishing
Publication: September 2024
Format: Hardback
Jurisdiction: U.K. ? Countri(es) for reference only

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This timely Research Handbook offers a comprehensive examination of judicial politics, both in the US and across the globe. Taking a broad view of the judiciary in all levels of the court, it examines the present state of the field and raises new questions for future scholarly exploration.

Expert authors critically analyse what the current literature tells us about important phenomena related to judicial politics, while simultaneously expanding the scope of that knowledge through original empirical research. Chapters cover the process of judicial decision-making in different types of courts, before discussing the electoral dimensions of judicial appointments, as well as vertical and horizontal constraints on judicial behaviour. They also address extrajudicial communications, public opinion and legitimacy, before concluding with an examination of methodological issues in judicial politics research.

Accessibly written, the Research Handbook on Judicial Politics is a vital resource for graduate and undergraduate students of law, political science and public policy. It is also beneficial to practitioners in law and law related fields who are interested in gaining insight into the processes and structure of the judiciary.

1.
Introduction to the Research Handbook on Judicial Politics 1: Michael P. Fix and Matthew D. Montgomery; PART I. JUDICIAL DECISION MAKING; 2.
US Supreme Court decision making in Intellectual Property rights (1954–2022) 14: Isaac Unah and Sabrina Zi Tong Peng; 3.
Judicial decision making on lower federal courts 35: Hayley Munir, Michael Catalano and Wendy L. Martinek; 4.
Judicial decision making on US state courts 50: David A. Hughes; 5.
Studying judicial decision-making beyond western democracies: lessons from Latin America 61: Mishella Romo Rivas and Raul Sanchez-Urribarri; 6.
Gender and racial influences on judicial decision making 85: Susan Haire, Alyson Hendricks-Benton, and Vanisha Kudumuri; PART II. JUDICIAL APPOINTMENTS AND ELECTIONS; 7.
The nomination and confirmation of US Supreme Court Justices 101: Imtashal Tariq and Paul M. Collins, Jr.; 8.
Lower federal court confirmations 115: Amy Steigerwalt and Morgan Smith; 9.
Comparative judicial governance 129: Gabriela Aída Cantú Ramos and Julio Ríos Figueroa; 10.
Race and gender in judicial selection in the United States 143: Matthew E. Baker, Christina L. Boyd, Aidan N. González, and Karson A. Pennington; PART III. VERTICAL AND HORIZONTAL CONSTRAINTS ON JUDICIAL BEHAVIOR; 11.
The President and the Court 158: Natalie C. Rogol; 12.
Congress and the courts 172: Albert H. Rivero and Ellen M. Key; 13.
Delegation and deference: federal judicial decision-making and administrative agencies 185: Jennifer Hickey, Gbemende E. Johnson, and Jaylin Small; 14.
State high courts and horizontal constraints 201: Meghan E. Leonard; 15.
Hierarchical influences on judicial decision-making in the United States 212: Benjamin J. Kassow; 16.
A bottom-up approach to lower court influence on the Supreme Court: of the United Kingdom 223; Jennifer Bowie, Ali S. Masood, Elisha Carol Savchak, Susan W. Johnson,; Lauren Oligino, and Adam Webster; 17.
“Riding a bicycle is frivolous behavior”: sources of judicial deference in Turkey 237: Onur Bakiner; PART IV. AUDIENCE CONSIDERATIONS AND EXTRAJUDICIAL COMMUNICATIONS; 18.
Judicial audiences 253: Ryan J. Owens and Marcy Shieh; 19.
Follow the court: examining judicial homestyle through extrajudicial communications on state court Twitter 277: Cayleb B. Stives and Todd A. Curry; 20.
Preserving institutional legitimacy through openness: the Supreme Court of Canada and Chief Justice Wagner 287: Tamara A. Small and Kate Puddister; 21.
Judicial communication, collegial education, cultural competency, and the significance of state judicial diversity 302: Taneisha Nicole Means, Joseph P. Kelly, and Simon LaClair; 22.
Judicial communication beyond the US 321: Jay N. Krehbiel; PART V. PUBLIC OPINION AND LEGITIMACY; 23.
Toward a theory of “the public” in research on the relationship betweenpublic opinion and Supreme Court outcomes 338: Brandon L. Bartels; 24.
The effect of Supreme Court fecisions on public opinion 356: Nicholas D. Conway, Alison Higgins Merrill, and Joseph Daniel Ura; 25.
Understanding the US Supreme Court’s legitimacy 378: Michael J. Nelson, Taran Samarth, and Amanda Driscoll; 26.
Law and social movements 392: Erin Mayo-Adam; PART VI METHODOLOGICAL ISSUES IN JUDICIAL POLITICS RESEARCH; 27.
Measuring judicial ideology 407: Chad Westerland; 28.
Comparative methods for measuring judicial ideology and behavior 423: Udi Sommer and Roee Braverman; 29.
Law, text, and judicial politics 436: Morgan L.W. Hazelton; 30.
Which are the main characteristics determining sentence severity? An empirical exploration of shoplifting offences using spike-and-slab models 450: Jose Pina-Sánchez, Mandeep K. Dhami, and John Paul Gosling