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Author Engel, Stephen M.

Title American politicians confront the court [electronic resource] : opposition politics and changing responses to judicial power / Stephen M. Engel.

Imprint New York : Cambridge University Press, 2011.

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Description x, 395 p.
Note Includes index.
Contents Beyond the countermajoritarian difficulty -- A developmental theory of politician's confrontations with judicial authority -- In support of Unified Governance : undermining the court in an anti-party age -- Party against partisanship : single-party constitutionalism and the quest for regime unity -- "As party exigencies require" : republicanism, loyal opposition, and the emerging legitimacy of multiple constitutional visions -- Clashing progressive solutions to the political problem of judicial power-- A polity fully-developed for harnessing (I) : living constitutionalism and the politicization of judicial appointment -- A polity fully-developed for harnessing (II) : a conservative insurgency and a self-stylized majoritarian court responds.
Reproduction Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, MI : ProQuest, 2015. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest affiliated libraries.
Subject Political questions and judicial power -- United States.
United States -- Politics and government.
Genre/Form Electronic books.
Added Author ProQuest (Firm)
ISBN 9780521192958 (hardback : alk. paper)
9780521153980 (pbk. : alk. paper)
9781139099523 (electronic bk.)

 
    
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