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The Supreme Court: An Analytic History of Constitutional Decision Making
Contributor(s): Clark, Tom S. (Author)

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 ISBN: 1108436935     ISBN-13: 9781108436939
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
OUR PRICE: $30.39  

Binding Type: Paperback - See All Available Formats & Editions
Published: March 2019
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BISAC Categories:
- Political Science | American Government - Judicial Branch
- Law | Courts - General
- Law | Constitutional
Dewey: 347.732
LCCN: 2018040082
Series: Political Economy of Institutions and Decisions
Physical Information: 1" H x 9.4" W x 9" L (1.4 lbs) 470 pages
Themes:
- Locality - Washington, D.C.
- Geographic Orientation - District of Columbia
Features: Bibliography, Illustrated, Index, Price on Product
 
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Publisher Description:
This book presents a quantitative history of constitutional law in the United States and brings together humanistic and social-scientific approaches to studying law. Using theoretical models of adjudication, Tom S. Clark presents a statistical model of law and uses the model to document the historical development of constitutional law. Using sophisticated statistical methods and historical analysis of court decisions, the author documents how social and political forces shape the path of law. Spanning the history of constitutional law since Reconstruction, this book illustrates the way in which the law evolves with American life and argues that a social-scientific approach to the history of law illuminates connections across disparate areas of the law, connected by the social context in which the Constitution has been interpreted.

Contributor Bio(s): Clark, Tom S.: - Tom S. Clark is Charles Howard Candler Professor of Political Science at Emory University, Atlanta. His research focuses on judicial decision-making and his recent work has focused on the development of law. His first book, The Limits of Judicial Independence (Cambridge, 2010), won the William Riker Award for the best book in political economy from the American Political Science Association.
 
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