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Record Nr.

UNINA9910781646903321

Autore

Braman Eileen

Titolo

Law, politics, & perception [[electronic resource] ] : how policy preferences influence legal reasoning / / Eileen Braman

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Charlottesville, : University of Virginia Press, 2009

ISBN

1-280-49030-6

9786613585530

0-8139-2837-0

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (257 p.)

Collana

Constitutionalism and democracy

Disciplina

340/.11

Soggetti

Law - United States - Methodology

Judicial process - United States

Political questions and judicial power - United States

Law - United States - Psychological aspects

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Outlining a theory of motivated cognition in legal decision making -- A motivated reasoning approach to the commerce clause interpretation of the Rehnquist court -- Seeing what they want? : analogical perceptions in discrimination disputes (with Thomas E. Nelson) -- Reasoning on the threshold : testing the separability of preferences in legal decision making -- Justifying outcomes? : how legal decision makers explain threshold decisions -- Motivated reasoning as an empirical framework : finding our way back to context.