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Judging on a Collegial Court: Influences on Federal Appellate Decision Making
Hettinger, Virginia A.; Lindquist, Stefanie A.; Martinek, Wendy L.
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paperback. Dissensus is often viewed in the professional world as a starting point for collaboration. When dissensus occurs in a federal court, however, it raises the question of whether this difference of opinion maintains the integrity of the judiciary or undermines its legitimacy. This book examines the dynamic that gives rise to such dissensus in courts. Series: Constitutionalism and Democracy. Num Pages: 168 pages, 1 figure & 12 tables. BIC Classification: 1KBB; LA; LNAA. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 235 x 156 x 13. Weight in Grams: 268.
Dissensus is often viewed in the professional world as a starting point for collaboration; rather than leaving decisions to just one person, dissent offers the opportunity to rethink or reinvent an idea, leading, one hopes, to a better result. When dissensus occurs in a federal court, however, it raises the question of whether this difference of opinion maintains the integrity of the judiciary or undermines its legitimacy. In ""Judging on a Collegial Court: Influences on Federal Appellate Decision Making"", Virginia Hettinger, Stefanie Lindquist, and Wendy Martinek examine the dynamic that gives rise to such dissensus in federal appeals courts, revealing how the appellate process shapes the content and the consistency of the law.
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2007
Publisher
University of Virginia Press United States
Number of pages
168
Condition
New
Series
Constitutionalism and Democracy
Number of Pages
168
Place of Publication
Charlottesville, United States
ISBN
9780813926971
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V9780813926971
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About Hettinger, Virginia A.; Lindquist, Stefanie A.; Martinek, Wendy L.
Virginia A. Hettinger is Assistant Professor of Political Science at the University of Connecticut. Stefanie A. Lindquist is Associate Professor of Political Science and Law at Vanderbilt University. Wendy L. Martinek is Associate Professor of Political Science at Binghamton University, State University of New York.
Reviews for Judging on a Collegial Court: Influences on Federal Appellate Decision Making
Using sophisticated state-of-the-art statistical techniques, the authors present convincing and often surprising answers to their research questions. Their work helps to illuminate judicial voting and judicial opinion behavior on the appeals courts and as such contributes to our understanding of appeals court decision-making. The book will surely be considered a classic in the field. - Sheldon Goldman, University of Massachusetts at Amherst, author of Picking Federal Judges: Lower Court Selection from Roosevelt through Reagan ""This is an excellent and ambitious work that is theoretically driven and empirically grounded. The authors offer a persuasive and compelling account of the internal dynamics of the U.S. Courts of Appeals.... It is challenging to offer a unified circuit court model. But the authors do that and much more. The resulting work is meticulously researched and well-written. It will be a definitive work on the courts."" - Tracey E. George, Vanderbilt University ""[Judging on a Collegial Court] is theoretically rich and methodologically sophisticated."" - Law and Politics Book Review