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Author Baird, Vanessa A., 1970-

Title Answering the call of the court : how justices and litigants set the Supreme Court agenda / Vanessa A. Baird
Published Charlottesville : University of Virginia Press, 2007

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Description 1 online resource (xii, 225 pages) : illustrations
Series Constitutionalism and democracy
Constitutionalism and democracy.
Contents The Supreme Court in the U.S. legal system : appeals and case selection -- Explaining the Supreme Court's policy cycles -- Immigrants' rights, welfare, and federalism -- Cyclical patterns on the Supreme Court's agenda -- Corroborative analyses : the political and legal context of the Supreme Court -- The impact of moderate justices' preferences on the ideological placement of future cases
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 201-217) and index
Notes English
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Subject United States. Supreme Court.
SUBJECT United States. Supreme Court fast
Subject Judicial process -- United States
Political questions and judicial power -- United States
LAW -- Government -- Federal.
POLITICAL SCIENCE -- History & Theory.
Judicial process
Political questions and judicial power
Politik
United States
Form Electronic book
LC no. 2006020915
ISBN 9780813930442
0813930448