Presents descriptions of the courts and their activities. This title 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.[...]
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 mak[...]