The Influence of Presidential Versus Home State Senatorial Preferences on the Policy Output of Judges on the United States District Courts.

While many of the decisions of federal district court judges involve the routine application of settled legal rules, a significant minority of their decisions present the judges with the opportunity to engage in judicial policy making. A considerable body of literature suggests that when faced with...

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Publicado en:Law & Society Review Vol. 36; no. 3; pp. 657 - 676
Autores principales: Johnson, Susan W., Songer, Donald R.
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Publicado: Wiley-Blackwell 2002
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