A mere machine
Subtitle: the Supreme Court, Congress, and American democracy
By: Anna Harvey
Publisher: Yale University Press
Published: 2013
Language: eng
Number of pages: 366
ISBN-13: 9780300171112
Subjects: Judicial power; Political questions and judicial power; United States. Supreme Court; Separation of powers; United States; Judicial independence
Description: In this work, Anna Harvey reports evidence showing that the Supreme Court is in fact extraordinarily deferential to congressional preferences in its constitutional rulings.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (pages 297-349) and index.
Table of contents: title: The Supreme Court, Congress, and American democracy; title: The Supreme Court, the elected branches, and the Constitution; title: Estimating the effect of elected branch preferences on Supreme Court judgments; title: The puzzle of the two Rehnquist courts; title: Explaining the puzzle of the two Rehnquist courts; title: Elected branch preferences, public opinion, or socioeconomic trends?; title: Restoring the Court's missing docket; title: Misreading the Roberts court; title: What's so great about independent courts, anyway?