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Ideology in the Supreme Court (Paperback)
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Ideology in the Supreme Court is the first book to analyze the
process by which the ideological stances of U.S. Supreme Court
justices translate into the positions they take on the issues that
the Court addresses. Eminent Supreme Court scholar Lawrence Baum
argues that the links between ideology and issues are not simply a
matter of reasoning logically from general premises. Rather, they
reflect the development of shared understandings among political
elites, including Supreme Court justices. And broad values about
matters such as equality are not the only source of these
understandings. Another potentially important source is the
justices' attitudes about social or political groups, such as the
business community and the Republican and Democratic parties. The
book probes these sources by analyzing three issues on which the
relative positions of liberal and conservative justices changed
between 1910 and 2013: freedom of expression, criminal justice, and
government "takings" of property. Analyzing the Court's decisions
and other developments during that period, Baum finds that the
values underlying liberalism and conservatism help to explain these
changes, but that justices' attitudes toward social and political
groups also played a powerful role. Providing a new perspective on
how ideology functions in Supreme Court decision making, Ideology
in the Supreme Court has important implications for how we think
about the Court and its justices.
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