Federal judges' budgetary powers -- Pulling the purse strings : an information theory of crisis jurisprudence -- Mobilizing judicial resources : the information theory in action -- The judicial understanding of costly foreign policy events -- The next stop : the information theory in the domestic context
Summary
Congress and the president are not the only branches that deal with fiscal issues in times of war. In this innovative book, Nancy Staudt focuses on the role of federal courts in fiscal matters during warfare and high-cost national defense emergencies. There is, she argues, a judicial power of the purse that becomes evident upon examining the budgetary effects of judicial decision making. The book provides substantial evidence that judges are willing--maybe even eager--to redirect private monies into government hands when the country is in peril, but when the judges receive convincing cues that o
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 177-190) and indexes
