The behavior of federal judges : a theoretical and empirical study of rational choice /
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...
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| 語言: | English |
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Cambridge, Mass. :
Harvard University Press,
2013.
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書本目錄:
- A realistic theory of judicial behavior
- The previous empirical literature
- The Supreme Court
- The Courts of Appelas
- The district courts and the selection effect
- Dissents and dissent aversion
- The questioning of lawyers at oral argument
- The auditioners.