A Mere Machine
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The Supreme Court, Congress, and American Democracy
Anna Harvey
"There is no scholar whose work on judicial independence is more provocative or demands greater attention than Anna Harvey. Professor Harvey’s empirical finding that the U.S. Supreme Court is responsive to the preferences of the House of Representatives poses a profound challenge to the conventional wisdom about both judicial independence and the Supreme Court. This conclusion is documented at length with painstaking methodological rigor and transparency. In particular, her strategy of drawing inferences from what she terms the “missing docket,” or the cases that the Court declines to hear, is instructive and groundbreaking. This book ought to be a must-read for constitutional scholars, law and courts scholars, judicial politics scholars, and public law scholars alike." - David Law, Professor of Law and Professor of Political Science, Washington University in St. Louis
Publication Date: November 26, 2013
19 b/w illus.