Measuring Judicial Activism

by Stefanie A. Lindquist and Frank B. Cross

Measuring Judicial Activism supplies empirical analysis to the widely discussed concept of judicial activism at the United States Supreme Court. Complaints about activist Court decisions are common within contemporary political discourse, but these objections often have little substantive meaning beyond the speaker's disagreement with particular case outcomes. Frequently debated by legal scholars, judicial activism is shaped by the participants' ideological...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0195370856
• ISBN13: 9780195370850
• Release Date: April 2009
• Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
• Length: 192 Pages
• Weight: 0.95 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.1" x 9.3"