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Author Braman, Eileen.

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

Imprint Charlottesville : University of Virginia Press, 2009.

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Description xxi, 231 p. : ill.
Series Constitutionalism and democracy
Constitutionalism and democracy.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents 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.
Reproduction Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, MI : ProQuest, 2015. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest affiliated libraries.
Subject Law -- United States -- Methodology.
Judicial process -- United States.
Political questions and judicial power -- United States.
Law -- United States -- Psychological aspects.
Genre/Form Electronic books.
Added Author ProQuest (Firm)
Added Title Law, politics, and perception
ISBN 9780813928296 (cloth : alk. paper)
081392829X (cloth : alk. paper)
0813928370 (electronic bk.)
9780813928371 (electronic bk.)

 
    
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