• Battle over the bench : senators, interest groups, and lower court confirmations
  • [NT 42944] Record Type: [NT 8598] Electronic resources : [NT 40817] monographic
    [NT 47348] Title Information: senators, interest groups, and lower court confirmations
    [NT 47261] Author: SteigerwaltAmy, 1976-
    [NT 47356] Secondary Intellectual Responsibility: Project Muse
    [NT 47351] Place of Publication: Charlottesville, Va.
    [NT 47263] Published: University of Virginia Press;
    [NT 47352] Year of Publication: 2010
    [NT 50960] Edition: 1st ed.
    [NT 47264] Description: 1 online resource (xii, 257 p.)ill. :
    [NT 47298] Series: Constitutionalism and democracy
    [NT 47266] Subject: Political questions and judicial power - United States -
    [NT 47266] Subject: Judges - Selection and appointment - United States -
    [NT 51458] Online resource: http://muse.jhu.edu/books/9780813929989/
    [NT 47265] Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. [237]-251) and index
    [NT 50961] ISBN: 9780813929989electronic bk.
    [NT 50961] ISBN: 0813929989electronic bk.
    [NT 50961] ISBN: 9780813929941hbk.
    [NT 50961] ISBN: 0813929946hbk.
    [NT 60779] Content Note: Introduction : the changing tone of lower federal court confirmations -- What makes a nomination run into trouble? : Senators, Interest Groups, and the four tracks to confirmation -- Death to nominees : senatorial courtesy and the ability to "kill" judicial confirmations -- "Herding cats" : holds and private political fights -- Interest groups and judicial confirmation : a view from the Senate -- Interest groups and thedecision to object : sending confirmations down the public partisan track -- Whither nominees? : the fate of nominations sent down the publicpartisan track -- Conclusion : what the future holds for lower court nominations and the Senate confirmation process -- Appendix A. : Data collection methodology -- Appendix B. : Variable descriptions and measurements for Tobit Regressions -- Appendix C. : Circuit Court nominationsopposed by interest groups, 99th-109th Congresses (1985-2006)
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