Are judges political?
Subtitle: an empirical analysis of the federal judiciary
By: Cass R. Sunstein ... [et al.].
Contributors: Sunstein, Cass R.
Publisher: Brookings Institution Press
Published: 2006
Place of publication: Washington, D.C
Language: eng
Number of pages: 177
Subjects: Judges -- United States; Judicial process -- United States; Political questions and judicial power -- United States
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 153-170) and index.
Table of contents: title: Studying judges with numbers; title: Ideological votes and ideological panels; title: Nonideological voting and entrenched views; title: Explaining the data : conformity, group polarization, and the rule of law; title: The case of big decisions : of segregation, abortion, and obscenity; title: More conservative than thou? : judicial voting across circuits, across presidents, and over time; title: What should be done? : of politics, judging, and diversity.