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A mere machine : the Supreme Court, Congress, and American democracy / Anna Harvey.

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In this work, the author reports evidence showing that the Supreme Court is in fact extraordinarily deferential to congressional preferences in its constitutional rulings.

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Main Author: Harvey, Anna L. (Anna Lil), 1966- (Author)
Other title:Supreme Court, Congress, and American democracy
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: New Haven : Yale University Press, [2013]
Subjects:
United States. > Supreme Court.
Judicial power > United States.
Judicial independence > United States.
Separation of powers > United States.
Political questions and judicial power > United States.
Judicial independence.
Judicial power.
Political questions and judicial power.
Separation of powers.
United States.
Table of Contents:
  • The Supreme Court, Congress, and American democracy
  • The Supreme Court, the elected branches, and the Constitution
  • Estimating the effect of elected branch preferences on Supreme Court judgments
  • The puzzle of the two Rehnquist courts
  • Explaining the puzzle of the two Rehnquist courts
  • Elected branch preferences, public opinion, or socioeconomic trends?
  • Restoring the Court's missing docket
  • Misreading the Roberts court
  • What's so great about independent courts, anyway?

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