Judges and Their Audiences A Perspective on Judicial Behavior

Name: Judges and Their Audiences A Perspective on Judicial Behavior
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ISBN: 9780691138275

ISBN-10: 0691138273

ISBN-13: 9780691138275

Edition: 2006

Authors: Lawrence. Baum

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What motivates judges as decision makers? Political scientist Lawrence Baum offers a new perspective on this crucial question, a perspective based on judges' interest in the approval of audiences important to them. The conventional scholarly wisdom holds that judges on higher courts seek only to make good law, good policy, or both. In these theories, judges are influenced by other people only in limited ways, in consequence of their legal and policy goals. In contrast, Baum argues that the influence of judges' audiences is pervasive. This influence derives from judges' interest in popularity and respect, a motivation central to most people. Judges care about the regard of audiences because…

Book details

List price: $35.00
Copyright year: 2006
Publisher: Princeton University Press
Publication date: 8/3/2008
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 240
Size: 6.14" wide x 9.13" long x 0.79" tall
Weight: 1.034
Language: English



List of Tables


Preface


Acknowledgments



Thinking about Judicial Behavior


Models of Judicial Behavior


Shared Assumptions: The Judge as Mr. Spock


Limitations of the Dominant Models


Audience as a Perspective



Judging as Self-Presentation


People and Their Audiences


Judicial Self-Presentation: A First Look


Audiences and Judicial Behavior



Court Colleagues, the Public, and the Other Branches of Government


Court Colleagues


The General Public


The Other Branches


Conclusions



Social and Professional Groups


Social Groups


Professional Groups: Lawyers and Judges


Conclusions



Policy Groups, the News Media, and the Greenhouse Effect


Policy Groups


The News Media


A Greenhouse Effect?


Conclusions



Procedures for Analysis of Voting Change by Supreme Court Justices



Implications for the Study of Judicial Behavior


Motivational Bases for the Dominant Models


Departures from the Dominant Models


Probing the Impact of Judicial Audiences


Some Final Thoughts


References


Name Index


Subject and Case Index