Law, politics, & perception how policy preferences influence legal reasoning /

Main Author: Braman, Eileen.
Corporate Author: ebrary, Inc.
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Charlottesville : University of Virginia Press, 2009.
Series:Constitutionalism and democracy
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Online Access:http://site.ebrary.com/lib/ucy/Doc?id=10495639
Table of Contents:
  • Outlining a theory of motivated cognition in legal decision making
  • A motivated reasoning approach to the commerce clause interpretation of the Rehnquist court
  • Seeing what they want? : analogical perceptions in discrimination disputes (with Thomas E. Nelson)
  • Reasoning on the threshold : testing the separability of preferences in legal decision making
  • Justifying outcomes? : how legal decision makers explain threshold decisions
  • Motivated reasoning as an empirical framework : finding our way back to context.