Institutional games and the U.S. Supreme Court

Corporate Author: ebrary, Inc.
Other Authors: Flemming, Roy B.
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Institutional games and the United States Supreme Court Charlottesville : University of Virginia Press, 2006.
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Online Access:http://site.ebrary.com/lib/ucy/Doc?id=10627960
Table of Contents:
  • Strategic games with Congress and the states
  • Statutory battles and constitutional wars : Congress and the Supreme Court / Andrew D. Martin
  • Why expert judges defer to (almost) ignorant legislators : accounting for the puzzle of judicial deference / James R. Rogers
  • Institutions and independence in models of judicial review / Christopher Zorn
  • "John Marshall has made his decision" : implementation, transparency, and public support / Georg Vanberg
  • Court-state interactions : national judicial power and the dormant commerce clause / Clifford J. Carrubba and James R. Rogers
  • Strategic games within the judicial hierarchy
  • A court of appeals in a rational-choice model of Supreme Court decision making / Thomas H. Hammond, Chris W. Bonneau, and Reginald S. Sheehan
  • Appeals mechanisms, litigant selection, and the structure of judicial hierarchies / Charles M. Cameron and Lewis A. Kornhauser
  • Informative precedent and intrajudicial communications / Ethan Bueno de Mesquita and Matthew Stephenson
  • Decision making by an agent with multiple principals : environmental policy in the U.S. courts of appeals / Stefanie A. Lindquist and Susan B. Haire
  • Afterword : studying courts formally / Lawrence Baum
  • Appendix: a primer on game theory / James R. Rogers.