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Books : Judges and Their Audiences: A Perspective on Judicial BehaviorIn association with Amazon.comby: Lawrence Baum  Availability: Usually ships in 24 hours
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Binding: PaperbackDewey Decimal Number: 340 EAN: 9780691138275 ISBN: 0691138273 Label: Princeton University Press Manufacturer: Princeton University Press Number Of Items: 1 Number Of Pages: 256 Publication Date: August 03, 2008 Publisher: Princeton University Press Studio: Princeton University Press Sales Rank: 455946 Related Items:
Editorial Review: Product Description: 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 make good law, good policy, or both. In these theories, judges are influenced by other people only in limited ways, in consequence of their legal and policy goals. In contrast, Baum argues that the influence of judges' audiences is pervasive. This influence derives from judges' interest in popularity and respect, a motivation central to most people. Judges care about the regard of audiences because they like that regard in itself, not just as a means to other ends. Judges and Their Audiences uses research in social psychology to make the case that audiences shape judges' choices in substantial ways. Drawing on a broad range of scholarship on judicial decision-making and an array of empirical evidence, the book then analyzes the potential and actual impact of several audiences, including the public, other branches of government, court colleagues, the legal profession, and judges' social peers. Engagingly written, this book provides a deeper understanding of key issues concerning judicial behavior on which scholars disagree, identifies aspects of judicial behavior that diverge from the assumptions of existing models, and shows how those models can be strengthened. Average Rating:
 Rating: - Judging those who Judge JudgesFinally a book that seeks to escape the narrow paradigm that has seemed to have trapped scholars of judicial behavior. Lawrence Baum's impressive account of judges' audiences as an influence on their decision-making is refreshing as it departs from the intuitive but overstated theory of judges as "single-minded seekers of policy". Baum's book provides a thoughtful, comprehensive and more realistic examination of the multiple motivations of judges... Rating: - A Fine Addition to the Literature on Judicial BehaviorProfessor Baum has added another important book to the literature on judicial behavior in this interesting volume. Building upon some themes in his influential "The Puzzle of Judicial Behavior" (1997), his intent is to suggest in this exploratory study an additional perspective on judges. First, he succinctly reviews the major models used to study judicial behavior--attitudinal, strategic and legal. He suggests that students of the judiciary also would have much to gain by focusing upon the audiences ... Read More Browse for similar items by category:
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