Amazon.com description: Product Description: Form yourown evaluations of the organization, function, and impact of the courts on and within government with the brief, affordable JUDICIAL PROCESS AND JUDICIAL POLICYMAKING. The textbook focuses on policy in its discussion of the judicial process, based on four premises: 1) that courts in the U.S. have always played an important role in governing and that their role has increased in recent decades; 2) that judicial policymaking is a distinctive activity; 3) that courts make policy in a variety of ways; and 4) that courts may be the objects of public policy, as well as creators.