Law, politics, and perception
Subtitle: how policy preferences influence legal reasoning
By: Eileen Braman.
Series: Constitutionalism and democracy
Publisher: University of Virginia Press
Published: 2009
Place of publication: Charlottesville
Language: eng
Number of pages: 231
ISBN-13: 9780813928296; 9780813928371
Subjects: Law -- United States -- Methodology; Judicial process -- United States; Political questions and judicial power -- United States; Law -- United States -- Psychological aspects
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Outlining a theory of motivated cognition in legal decision making; title: A motivated reasoning approach to the commerce clause interpretation of the Rehnquist court; title: Seeing what they want? : analogical perceptions in discrimination disputes / with Thomas E. Nelson; title: Reasoning on the threshold : testing the separability of preferences in legal decision making; title: Justifying outcomes? : how legal decision makers explain threshold decisions; title: Motivated reasoning as an empirical framework : finding our way back to context.