The JUDICIAL branch/ Kermit L. Hall, Kevin T. McGuire, editors.
Physical description:
xxviii, 579 p. 24 cm.;
Bibliographic notes:
Includes bibliographical references and index.;
Series:
Institutions of American democracy series;
Author(s): Hall, Kermit L.;
McGuire, Kevin T.;
ISBN:
0195171721 (hbk.;
Subjects: Courts --United States.;
Judicial power --United States.;
Judges --United States.;
Democracy --United States.;
Formatted contents notes:
The historical foundations of the American judiciary / William E. Nelson -- Judges and democracy : the changing role of the United States Supreme Court / Cass R. Sunstein -- Judicial independence and the majoritarian difficulty / Kermit L. Hall -- The judiciary and the separation of powers / Richard A. Brisbin, Jr. -- Judicial review and interpretation : have the courts become sovereign when interpreting the constitution? / Keith E. Whittington -- Paths to the Bench : selecting Supreme Court justices in a "juristocratic" world / Joel B. Grossman -- Is judicial federalism essential to democracy? : state courts in the federal system / Paul Brace and Melinda Gann Hall -- American courts and democracy : a comparative perspective / Donald P. Kommers -- Courts in American popular culture / Lynn Mather -- What Americans know about the courts and why it matters / Gregory A. Caldeira and Kevin T. McGuire -- The impact of courts on American life / Gerald N. Rosenberg -- Judicial activism and American democracy / Doris Marie Provine -- Courts and the rights revolution / Charles R. Epp -- Discrimination through direct democracy : the role of the judiciary in the pursuit of equality / Sue Davis -- From republic to democracy : the judiciary and the political process / Mark A. Graber -- Courts and the definition of defendants' rights / David A. Yalof -- Public education, democratic life, and the American courts / Douglas S. Reed -- Property rights and democracy in the American constitutional order / James W. Ely, Jr. -- The future of the judicial branch : courts and democracy in the twenty-first century / Lawrence Baum.;
Publisher:
Oxford [England] : Oxford University Press , c2005.;
Call number: 347.73 JUD;
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