Battle over the bench : senators, interest groups, and lower court confirmations / / Amy Steigerwalt.
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| Superior document: | Constitutionalism and democracy |
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| Year of Publication: | 2010 |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | Constitutionalism and democracy.
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| Physical Description: | xii, 257 p. :; ill. |
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Table of Contents:
- Introduction : the changing tone of lower federal court confirmations
- What makes a nomination run into trouble? : Senators, Interest Groups, and the four tracks to confirmation
- Death to nominees : senatorial courtesy and the ability to "kill" judicial confirmations
- "Herding cats" : holds and private political fights
- Interest groups and judicial confirmation : a view from the Senate
- Interest groups and the decision to object : sending confirmations down the public partisan track
- Whither nominees? : the fate of nominations sent down the public partisan track
- Conclusion : what the future holds for lower court nominations and the Senate confirmation process
- Appendix A. : Data collection methodology
- Appendix B. : Variable descriptions and measurements for Tobit Regressions
- Appendix C. : Circuit Court nominations opposed by interest groups, 99th-109th Congresses (1985-2006).