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100 1 _aBAILEY, Michael A.
_924425
245 1 0 _aDoes legal doctrine matter? :
_bunpacking law and policy preferences on the U.S. Supreme Court
260 _aNew York, NY :
_bCambridge University Press,
_cAugust 2008
520 3 _aJudicial scholars often struggle to disentangle the effects of law and policy preferences on U.S. Supreme Court decision making. We employ a new approach to measuring the effect—if any—of the law on justices' decisions. We use positions taken on Supreme Court cases by members of Congress and presidents to identify policy components of voting. Doing so enables us to isolate the effects of three legal doctrines: adherence to precedent, judicial restraint, and a strict interpretation of the First Amendment's protection of speech clause. We find considerable evidence that legal factors play an important role in Supreme Court decision making. We also find that the effect of legal factors varies across justices
700 1 _aMALTZMAN, Forrest
_96549
773 0 8 _tAmerican political science review
_g102, 3, p. 369-384
_dNew York, NY : Cambridge University Press, August 2008
_xISSN 00030554
_w
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_cTiago
999 _aConvertido do Formato PHL
_bPHL2MARC21 1.1
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041 _aeng