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Most Americans think that judges should be, and are, generalists who decide a wide array of cases. Nonetheless, we now have specialized courts in many key policy areas. Specializing the Courts provides the first comprehensive analysis of this growing trend toward specialization in the federal and st...
Author
Lawrence Baum
Binding
Paperback
Pages
296
Publisher
University Of Chicago Press
ISBN #
0226039552
EAN Code
9780226039558
ISBN #
10
From local trial courts to the United States Supreme Court, judges' decisions affect the fates of individual litigants and the fate of the nation as a whole. Scholars have long discussed and debated explanations of judicial behavior. This book examines the major issues in the debates over how best t...
Author
Lawrence Baum
Binding
Paperback
Pages
232
Publisher
University of Michigan Press
ISBN #
047208335X
EAN Code
9780472083350
ISBN #
7
This highly respected text by leading scholar Lawrence Baum provides thorough descriptions of the courts and their activities; explanations of what courts do, how people within them behave, and how they relate to the rest of the political system; and an evaluation of the courts' work. The best-selle...
Author
Lawrence Baum
Binding
Paperback
Pages
352
Publisher
Cengage Learning
ISBN #
0618522840
EAN Code
9780618522842
ISBN #
6
The highly respected AMERICAN COURTS: PROCESS AND POLICY, by top Courts scholar Lawrence Baum, provides clear descriptions of the courts and the activities of the various courts. The Seventh Edition explains what courts do, how people within them behave, and how they relate to the rest of the politi...
Author
Lawrence Baum
Binding
Paperback
Pages
368
Publisher
Cengage Learning
ISBN #
0495916374
EAN Code
9780495916376
ISBN #
4
What motivates judges as decision makers? Political scientist Lawrence Baum offers a new perspective on this crucial question, a perspective based on judges' interest in the approval of audiences important to them. The conventional scholarly wisdom holds that judges on higher courts seek only to mak...
Author
Lawrence Baum
Binding
Paperback
Pages
240
Publisher
Princeton University Press
ISBN #
0691138273
EAN Code
9780691138275
ISBN #
3
In The Supreme Court, Lawrence Baum provides a brief yet comprehensive introduction to the U.S. Supreme Court, one that is balanced and illuminating. In successive chapters, the book examines each major aspect of the Court: the selection, backgrounds, and departures of justices; the creation of the ...
Author
Lawrence Baum
Binding
Paperback
Pages
255
Publisher
CQ Press
ISBN #
1452220964
EAN Code
9781452220963
ISBN #
2
In successive chapters, the book examines each major aspect of the Court: the selection, backgrounds, and departures of justices; the creation of the Court's agenda; the decision-making process and the factors that shape the Court's decisions; the substance of the Court's policies; and the Court's i...
Binding
Paperback
Pages
256
Publisher
CQ Press
ISBN #
1483376117
EAN Code
9781483376110
ISBN #
1
This volume describes the workings and personalities of the Supreme Court in America.
Author
Lawrence Baum
Binding
Paperback
Pages
261
Publisher
Cq Pr
ISBN #
1568028156
EAN Code
9781568028156
ISBN #
8