The Judicial Tug of War: How Lawyers, Politicians, and Ideological Incentives Shape the American Judiciary

by Adam Bonica and Maya Sen

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Why have conservatives decried 'activist judges'? And why have liberals - and America's powerful legal establishment - emphasized qualifications and experience over ideology? This transformative text tackles these questions with a new framework for thinking about the nation's courts, 'the judicial tug of war', which not only explains current political clashes over America's courts, but also powerfully predicts the composition of courts moving forward...

Format:Hardcover

Language:English

ISBN:1108841368

ISBN13:9781108841368

Release Date:February 2021

Publisher:Cambridge University Press

Length:334 Pages

Weight:0.75 lbs.

Dimensions:0.9" x 7.7" x 9.2"

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