Judges and Their Audiences : : A Perspective on Judicial Behavior /

Judges and Their Audiences : : A Perspective on Judicial Behavior / / Lawrence Baum.

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What motivates judges as decision makers? Political scientist Lawrence Baum offers a new perspective on this crucial question, a perspective based on judges' interest in the approval of audiences important to them. The conventional scholarly wisdom holds that judges on higher courts seek only t...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Princeton University Press eBook-Package Backlist 2000-2013
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Baum, Lawrence,
Place / Publishing House:Princeton, NJ : : Princeton University Press, , [2009]
©2006
Year of Publication:2009
Edition:Course Book
Language:English
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Physical Description:1 online resource (240 p.) :; 5 tables.
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • List of Tables
  • Preface
  • Acknowledgments
  • CHAPTER 1. Thinking about Judicial Behavior
  • CHAPTER 2. Judging as Self-Presentation
  • CHAPTER 3. Court Colleagues, the Public, and the Other Branches of Government
  • CHAPTER 4. Social and Professional Groups
  • CHAPTER 5. Policy Groups, the News Media, and the Greenhouse Effect
  • CHAPTER 6. Implications for the Study of Judicial Behavior
  • References
  • Name Index
  • Subject and Case Index

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