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Author Harvey, Anna L. (Anna Lil), 1966- author.

Title A mere machine : the Supreme Court, Congress, and American democracy / Anna Harvey
Published New Haven : Yale University Press, [2013]
©2013

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Description 1 online resource (xvii, 366 pages)
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?
Summary In this work, the author reports evidence showing that the Supreme Court is in fact extraordinarily deferential to congressional preferences in its constitutional rulings
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
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Subject United States. Supreme Court.
SUBJECT United States. Supreme Court fast
Subject Judicial power -- United States
Judicial independence -- United States
Separation of powers -- United States
Political questions and judicial power -- United States
LAW -- Civil Procedure.
LAW -- Legal Services.
POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Government -- Judicial Branch.
POLITICAL SCIENCE -- American Government -- Judicial Branch.
Judicial independence
Judicial power
Political questions and judicial power
Separation of powers
United States
Form Electronic book
LC no. 2013013064
ISBN 9780300199192
0300199198
Other Titles Supreme Court, Congress, and American democracy