The judicial power of the purse
Subtitle: how courts fund national defense in times of crisis
By: Nancy Staudt
Series: Chicago series on international and domestic institutions
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Published: 2011
Place of publication: Chicago
Language: eng
Number of pages: 199
ISBN-13: 9780226771120; 9780226771144
Subjects: Judicial power; United States; Powers and duties; Judge-made law; Fiscal policy; War and emergency legislation; Economic aspects; United States. Supreme Court
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. [177]-190) and indexes.
Table of contents: title: Federal judges' budgetary powers; title: Pulling the purse strings : an information theory of crisis jurisprudence; title: Mobilizing judicial resources : the information theory in action; title: The judicial understanding of costly foreign policy events; title: The next stop : the information theory in the domestic context.