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1 online resource (499 p.) |
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Cover -- Making the Supreme Court: The Politics of Appointments, 1930-2020 -- Copyright -- Dedication -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Part I: What Happened -- Chapter 1: Then and Now -- 1.2 The Pelican Problem -- 1.3 A Lens on American Politics -- 1.3.1 A Separation-of-Powers Laboratory -- 1.3.2 The New American Politics -- 1.3.3 The Growth of Government and the Rise of the Judicial State -- 1.3.4 From Pluralism to Hyper-Pluralism -- 1.3.5 The Polarization of Political Elites -- 1.3.6 The Resurgence of Divided Party Government -- 1.3.7 Ideologically Sorted, Informationally Bifurcated |
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1.4 The Politics of Supreme Court Appointments -- 1.4.1 The Process -- 1.4.2 The Changes -- Party & Activist Interest in the Court -- Presidential Vetting -- Nominee Characteristics -- Interest Group Mobilization -- Media Coverage -- Presidents Going Public -- Senate Hearings -- Public Opinion -- Senate Voting and Voter Electoral Response -- Appointee Behavior on the Court -- Exits from the Court -- Summary -- 1.5 How to Read This Book -- Chapter 2: The Party Demands: Party Agendas for the Supreme Court -- 2.2 Party Platforms and Party Agendas: Theoretical Foundations -- Downsian Platforms |
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Coalition Contracts -- 2.3 The Parties' Agendas for Supreme Court Nominees -- 2.3.1 Cases -- 2.3.2 Appointments -- Policy Litmus Tests -- Ideological Requirements for Nominees -- Quality -- Diversity -- A Note about Party Factions and Southern Democrats -- 2.3.3 Hot-Button Cases and Their Topics -- Summary -- 2.3.4 Specific Policy Litmus Tests -- 2.3.5 General Ideological Demands -- 2.3.6 Index of Party Interest in Supreme Court Policy -- 2.3.7 Diversity Promises and Calls for Quality -- 2.4 Explaining the Party Positions: Evidence from Convention Delegates Survey |
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Abortion Preferences and Group Membership over Time -- Delegate Diversity -- 2.5 Conclusion -- Chapter 3: Selecting How to Select: Presidents and Organizational Design -- 3.2 Procedural Design: Presidential Interest, Executive Resources -- 3.2.1 A (Sketch) Theory of Presidential Procedural Choice -- 3.3 The Growth of a Legal Policy Elite -- 3.3.1 The Justice Department -- 3.3.2 The White House -- Growth of Presidential Staff -- The White House Legal Counsel -- 3.4 The Growth of Professionalism -- 3.4.1 The Short List -- 3.4.2 Thinking It Over: The Duration of the Selection Process |
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3.5 Portraits of the Process -- 3.5.1 No Delegation -- Herbert Hoover: No Delegation by Default -- Franklin D. Roosevelt: The Ringmaster at Work -- 3.5.2 External Delegation -- Dwight D. Eisenhower: Politicized Delegation -- Ronald Reagan: Contested Delegation -- 3.5.3 Internal Delegation -- George H.W. Bush: Pragmatism Gone Awry -- Bill Clinton: White House Chaos -- Trump: Internal Delegation with Outsourcing -- 3.6 Conclusion -- Chapter 4: The Candidates for the Court and the Nominees -- 4.2 Ideology -- 4.2.1 The Nominees -- 4.2.2 The Short Listers -- 4.3 Experience and Policy Reliability |
| Summary |
In Making the Supreme Court, Charles M. Cameron and Jonathan P. Kastellec examine 90 years of American political history to show how the growth of federal judicial power from the 1930s onward inspired a multitude of groups struggling to shape judicial policy. As Cameron and Kastellec argue, the result is a new politics aimed squarely at selecting and placing judicial ideologues on the Court. They make the case that this new model gradually transformed how the Court itself operates, turning it into an ideologically driven and polarized branch. Based on rich data and qualitative evidence, Making |
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Description based upon print version of record |
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4.4 Racial and Gender Diversity |
| Subject |
United States. Supreme Court -- Officials and employees -- Selection and appointment -- History
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United States. Supreme Court -- Officials and employees -- History
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United States. Supreme Court fast |
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Judges -- Selection and appointment -- United States -- History
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Political questions and judicial power -- United States -- History
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Employees
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Judges -- Selection and appointment
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Political questions and judicial power
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United States
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| Genre/Form |
History
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Electronic book
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| Author |
Kastellec, Jonathan P
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| ISBN |
9780197680568 |
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0197680569 |
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