Battle over the bench : senators, interest groups, and lower court confirmations
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Battle over the bench : senators, interest groups, and lower court confirmations
（Constitutionalism and democracy）
University of Virginia Press, 2010
- : cloth
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Bibliography: p. [237]-251
Includes index
Contents of Works
- Introduction : the changing tone of lower federal court confirmations
- What makes a nomination run into trouble? : Senators, Interest Groups, and the four tracks to confirmation
- Death to nominees : senatorial courtesy and the ability to "kill" judicial confirmations
- "Herding cats" : holds and private political fights
- Interest groups and judicial confirmation : a view from the Senate
- Interest groups and the decision to object : sending confirmations down the public partisan track
- Whither nominees? : the fate of nominations sent down the public partisan track
- Conclusion : what the future holds for lower court nominations and the Senate confirmation process
- Appendix A. : Data collection methodology
- Appendix B. : Variable descriptions and measurements for Tobit Regressions
- Appendix C. : Circuit Court nominations opposed by interest groups, 99th-109th Congresses (1985-2006)