Electing Justice: Fixing the Supreme Court Nomination Process

ISBN-13: 9780195181098 / Angielski / Twarda / 2005 / 211 str.

Richard Davis

Opis

Davis discusses the increasing role of interest groups, the press, and the public, whose role is not prescribed in the Constitution, in the selection and confirmation of Supreme Court justices and how it affects the process. First he examines in detail the history and nature of the process, then he looks at the role and impact of other players. His conclusions about how non-political actors affect the outcome of Supreme Court justice selection leads him at the end of his book to suggest controversial reforms and their prospects for success.

Recenzje

Richard Davis offers an insightful, provocative, and arresting view of the modern Supreme Court appointment process. It is, he demonstrates, more like an electoral campaign than the elite dominated and closed process developed by the Framers. The result is a landmark book about the modern process of finding high court judges.

O autorze

Richard Davis is Professor of Political Science at Brigham Young University. He is the author of The Web of Politics: The Internet's Impact on the American Political System (Oxford, 1999), The Press and American Politics, 3rd edition (Prentice Hall, 1994), and Politics and the Media (Prentice Hall, 1994). He is co-author of New Media and American Politics (Oxford, 1998), with Diana Owen and Campaigning Online: The Internet in U.S. Elections, with Bruce Bimber.