The Judicial Tug of War: How Lawyers, Politicians, and Ideological Incentives Shape the American Judiciary

Why have conservatives decried 'activist judges'? And why have liberals - and America's powerful legal establishment -...
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Author: Adam Bonica
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The Judicial Tug of War: How Lawyers, Politicians, and Ideological Incentives Shape the American Judiciary by Bonica, Adam

The Judicial Tug of War: How Lawyers, Politicians, and Ideological Incentives Shape the American Judiciary

$128.30

The Judicial Tug of War: How Lawyers, Politicians, and Ideological Incentives Shape the American Judiciary

$128.30
Author: Adam Bonica
Format: Hardcover
Language: English
Why have conservatives decried 'activist judges'? And why have liberals - and America's powerful legal establishment - emphasized qualifications and experience over ideology? This transformative text tackles these questions with a new framework for thinking about the nation's courts, 'the judicial tug of war', which not only explains current political clashes over America's courts, but also powerfully predicts the composition of courts moving forward. As the text demonstrates through novel quantitative analyses, a greater ideological rift between politicians and legal elites leads politicians to adopt measures that put ideology and politics front and center - for example, judicial elections. On the other hand, ideological closeness between politicians and the legal establishment leads legal elites to have significant influence on the selection of judges. Ultimately, the judicial tug of war makes one point clear: for good or bad, politics are critical to how judges are selected and whose interests they ultimately represent.

Author: Adam Bonica, Maya Sen
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 12/17/2020
Pages: 334
Binding Type: Hardcover
Weight: 1.40lbs
Size: 9.20h x 7.70w x 0.90d
ISBN: 9781108841368

About the Author
Bonica, Adam: - Adam Bonica is Associate Professor in the Department of Political Science at Stanford University.Sen, Maya: - Maya Sen is Professor of Public Policy at Harvard University's John F. Kennedy School of Government.

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