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Scholar Lawrence Baum presents thorough descriptions of the courts and their activities with clear, engaging prose to foster student interest. Comprehensive and current, the text offers explanations of what the courts do, how officers of the court perform their duties, and how the judicial branch relates to the rest of the political system.
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9780495916376 | 7 edition (Wadsworth Pub Co, January 1, 2012), cover price $152.95 | also contains American Courts: Process and Policy
9780618122899 | 5th edition (Wadsworth Pub Co, December 1, 2001), cover price $129.95
9780395871058 | Houghton Mifflin College Div, January 1, 1998, cover price $55.95 | also contains Introduction to Sociology | About this edition: Scholar Lawrence Baum presents thorough descriptions of the courts and their activities with clear, engaging prose to foster student interest.
9780395920206 | 4 pck edition (Houghton Mifflin College Div, January 1, 1998), cover price $85.16 | About this edition: Scholar Lawrence Baum presents thorough descriptions of the courts and their activities with clear, engaging prose to foster student interest.
9780395675397 | Houghton Mifflin College Div, June 1, 1994, cover price $44.95 | also contains China's War Reporters: The Legacy of Resistance Against Japan
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9780547134246 | 8 pck edition (Houghton Mifflin College Div, November 13, 2007), cover price $124.76
Hardcover:
9780691124933 | Princeton Univ Pr, July 3, 2006, cover price $42.00
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9780691138275 | Princeton Univ Pr, July 14, 2008, cover price $30.95
Miscellaneous:
9781400827541 | Princeton Univ Pr, September 2, 2008, cover price $22.95
From local trial courts to the United States Supreme Court, judges' decisions affect the fates of individual litigants and the fate of the nation as a whole. Scholars have long discussed and debated explanations of judicial behavior. This book examines the major issues in the debates over how best to understand judicial behavior and assesses what we actually know about how judges decide cases. It concludes that we are far from understanding why judges choose the positions they take in court.Lawrence Baum considers three issues in examining judicial behavior. First, the author considers the balance between the judges' interest in the outcome of particular cases and their interest in other goals such as personal popularity and lighter workloads. Second, Baum considers the relative importance of good law and good policy as bases for judges' choices. Finally Baum looks at the extent to which judges act strategically, choosing their own positions after taking into account the positions that their fellow judges and other policy makers might adopt. Baum argues that the evidence on each of these issues is inconclusive and that there remains considerable room for debate about the sources of judges' decisions. Baum concludes that this lack of resolution is not the result of weaknesses in the scholarship but from the difficulty in explaining human behavior. He makes a plea for diversity in research.This book will be of interest to political scientists and scholars in law and courts as well as attorneys who are interested in understanding judges as decision makers and who want to understand what we can learn from scholarly research about judicial behavior.Lawrence Baum is Professor of Political Science, Ohio State University.
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9780472106707 | Univ of Michigan Pr, November 1, 1997, cover price $50.00 | About this edition: From local trial courts to the United States Supreme Court, judges' decisions affect the fates of individual litigants and the fate of the nation as a whole.
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9780472083350 | Univ of Michigan Pr, December 1, 1997, cover price $30.95
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9781568025247 | 7 edition (Cq Pr, October 1, 2000), cover price $44.95
9781568023212 | 6th edition (Cq Pr, January 1, 1998), cover price $39.95 | About this edition: Provides information on the history of America's highest court, including insight on the justices' voting patterns and influential decisions.
9780871878229 | 5th edition (Cq Pr, January 1, 1995), cover price $38.95
9780871876195 | 4 sub edition (Cq Pr, January 1, 1992), cover price $30.95
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9781452220963 | 11 edition (Cq Pr, October 9, 2012), cover price $49.00
9781604264623 | 10th edition (Cq Pr, October 13, 2009), cover price $44.00
9781933116853 | 9 edition (Cq Pr, October 1, 2006), cover price $38.95
9781568028156 | 8 edition (Cq Pr, October 1, 2003), cover price $34.95
9781568025230, titled "Supreme Court" | 7 edition (Cq Pr, October 1, 2000), cover price $29.95
3 other edition(s) in this binding (see all)
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9781452276366 | Revised edition (Cq Pr, September 18, 2012), cover price $76.00
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