| The Supreme Court: An Analytic History of Constitutional Decision Making Contributor(s): Clark, Tom S. (Author) |
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ISBN: 1108422764 ISBN-13: 9781108422765 Publisher: Cambridge University Press OUR PRICE: $105.45 Product Type: Hardcover - Other Formats Published: April 2019 |
| Additional Information |
| 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: 1.1" H x 9.4" W x 9.2" (1.70 lbs) 450 pages |
| Themes: - Locality - Washington, D.C. - Geographic Orientation - District of Columbia |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| 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. |