Making Good Law or Good Policy?

The Causes and Effects of State Supreme Court Judges’ Role Orientations

Raymond V. Carman (Autor)

Buch | Softcover

VIII, 140 Seiten

2018 | 1. Softcover reprint of the original 1st ed. 2017
Springer International Publishing (Verlag)
978-3-319-85139-6 (ISBN)

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This book uses role theory to analyze the judicial decisions made by state supreme court judges. Grounded in the fields of anthropology, business management, psychology, and sociology, role theory holds that, for each position an individual occupies in society, he or she creates a role orientation, or a belief about the limits of proper behavior. Judicial role orientation is conceptualized as the stimuli that a judge feels can legitimately be allowed to influence his or her decision-making and, in the case of conflict among influences, what priorities to assign to different decisional criteria. This role orientation is generally seen as existing on a spectrum ranging from activist to restraintist. Using multi-faceted data collection and empirical testing, this book discusses the variation in judges' role orientations, the role that personal institutional structure and judges' backgrounds play in determining judicial orientations, and the degree to which judges' orientations affect their decision-making. The first study to provide cross-institutional research on state supreme court judges, this book expands and advances the literature on judicial role orientation. As such, this book will be of interest to graduate students and researchers studying political science, public policy, law, and the courts.

Raymond V. Carman, Jr. is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Political Science at the State University of New York, College at Plattsburgh, where he has been a faculty member since 2014. Ray completed his Ph.D. at Binghamton University and his undergraduate studies at Niagara University. His research and teaching interests include: American political institutions (including courts, federalism, intergovernmental relations, and state politics); judicial behavior and politics (including judicial decision-making, judicial selection, and the psychology of judging); law (including civil rights and liberties, and constitutional law); and research methods.

1. An Empirical Puzzle.- 2. Role Theoretic Literature and a Judicial Role Theoretic Framework.- 3. Survey Design and Survey Results.- 4. Determining the Causes of Role Orientation.- 5. Role Orientation's Effect on Role Behavior.- 6. Conclusion.

Erscheinungsdatum	05.03.2022
Zusatzinfo	VIII, 140 p. 4 illus.
Verlagsort	Cham
Sprache	englisch
Maße	155 x 235 mm
Gewicht	237 g
Themenwelt	Recht / Steuern ► Allgemeines / Lexika
	Recht / Steuern ► Öffentliches Recht
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Politik / Verwaltung ► Politische Systeme
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Politik / Verwaltung ► Staat / Verwaltung
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Politik / Verwaltung ► Vergleichende Politikwissenschaften
Schlagworte	Courts • Judicial Activism • judicial decision-making • judicial politics • Judicial restraint • role theory • State Politics • US politics
ISBN-10	3-319-85139-X / 331985139X
ISBN-13	978-3-319-85139-6 / 9783319851396
Zustand	Neuware