Supreme Court - An Analytic History of Constitutional Decision Making

Informationen zum Autor Tom S. Clark is Charles Howard Candler Professor of Political Science at Emory University, Atlanta. His research focuses on judicial decision-making and his recent work has focused on the development of law. His first book, The Limits of Judicial Independence (Cambridge, 2010), won the William Riker Award for the best book in political economy from the American Political Science Association. Klappentext Provides a quantitative history of the development of constitutional law in the United States during the past 150 years. Zusammenfassung This book presents a quantitative history of constitutional law in the United States and uses a statistical model of law to bring together humanistic and social-scientific perspectives on legal history. Inhaltsverzeichnis 1. The history of constitutional law: inside and outside; 2. Modeling constitutional doctrine; 3. An empirical model of constitutional decision making; 4. The cases, votes, and opinions; 5. Patterns in constitutional law; 6. From civil war to regulation and federal power; 7. War, security, and culture clash; 8. Conclusion.

Product details

• Authors: Thomas Clark, Thomas (Emory University Clark, Tom S. Clark, Tom S. (Emory University Clark, Clark Tom S.
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 31.03.2019
• EAN: 9781108422765
• ISBN: 978-1-108-42276-5
• No. of pages: 450
• Series: Political Economy of Instituti; Political Economy of Instituti; Political Economy of Institutions and Decisions
• Subjects: Social sciences, law, business > Political science > Political science and political education; USA, POLITICAL SCIENCE / American Government / General, Political Economy, United States of America, USA, History of the Americas, Courts & procedure, Legal systems: courts and procedures, Constitutional & administrative law, Constitutional and administrative law: general