Picking Judges

Informationen zum Autor Nancy Maveety Klappentext This new volume in the Presidential Briefings series shows how the US president's appointment power has expanded beyond its bare constitutional outlines. Nancy Maveety examines the dynamics of screening and choosing judicial nominees and analyses the institutional calculus in securing their confirmation in the face of senatorial obstruction. Zusammenfassung What defines a president? Is it policymaking? A good relationship with the American people? Or is it legacy? Most would argue that legacy imprints a president in the American consciousness Inhaltsverzeichnis One: History; Two: Candidates; Three: Context; Four: How; Five: Why

Product details

• Authors: Nancy Maveety, Maveety Nancy
• Publisher: Transaction Publishers
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 29.02.2016
• EAN: 9781412863308
• ISBN: 978-1-4128-6330-8
• No. of pages: 144
• Series: Presidential Briefings Series; Presidential Briefings Series
• Subjects: Social sciences, law, business > Political science; POLITICAL SCIENCE / General, Politics & government, Politics and government