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The Behavior of Federal Judges: A Theoretical and Empirical Study of Rational Choice
Lee Epstein
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Description for The Behavior of Federal Judges: A Theoretical and Empirical Study of Rational Choice
Hardback. Federal judges are not just robots or politicians in robes, yet their behavior is not well understood, even among themselves. Using statistical methods, a political scientist, an economist, and a judge construct a unified theory of judicial decision-making to dispel the mystery of how decisions from district courts to the Supreme Court are made. Num Pages: 440 pages, 20 graphs, 100 tables. BIC Classification: 1KBB; JPHC; LNAA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 246 x 170 x 33. Weight in Grams: 842.
Judges play a central role in the American legal system, but their behavior as decision-makers is not well understood, even among themselves. The system permits judges to be quite secretive (and most of them are), so indirect methods are required to make sense of their behavior. Here, a political scientist, an economist, and a judge work together to construct a unified theory of judicial decision-making. Using statistical methods to test hypotheses, they dispel the mystery of how judicial decisions in district courts, circuit courts, and the Supreme Court are made.
The authors derive their hypotheses from a labor-market model, ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Harvard University Press United States
Number of pages
440
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2013
Condition
New
Weight
841g
Number of Pages
440
Place of Publication
Cambridge, Mass, United States
ISBN
9780674049895
SKU
V9780674049895
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About Lee Epstein
Lee Epstein is Provost Professor of Law and Political Science and Rader Family Trustee Chair in Law at the University of Southern California. William M. Landes is Clifton R. Musser Professor Emeritus of Law and Economics at the University of Chicago Law School. Richard A. Posner retired as a judge of the United States Court of Appeals for the Seventh ... Read more
Reviews for The Behavior of Federal Judges: A Theoretical and Empirical Study of Rational Choice
[The Behavior of Federal Judges] provides the most comprehensive and detailed empirical analysis yet of the role played by ideology and political affiliation in judicial decision making...It collects and analyzes a daunting amount of data.
Adam Liptak
New York Times
The most detailed and elaborate quantitative analysis of the federal judiciary to date... [The authors] show that ... Read more
Adam Liptak
New York Times
The most detailed and elaborate quantitative analysis of the federal judiciary to date... [The authors] show that ... Read more