Battle over the bench senators, interest groups, and lower court confirmations /

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Main Author: Steigerwalt, Amy, 1976-
Corporate Author: ebrary, Inc
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Charlottesville : University of Virginia Press, 2010.
Series:Constitutionalism and democracy.
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Online Access:An electronic book accessible through the World Wide Web; click to view
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245 1 0 |a Battle over the bench  |h [electronic resource] :  |b senators, interest groups, and lower court confirmations /  |c Amy Steigerwalt. 
260 |a Charlottesville :  |b University of Virginia Press,  |c 2010. 
300 |a xii, 257 p. :  |b ill. 
490 1 |a Constitutionalism and democracy 
504 |a Includes bibliographical references and index. 
505 0 |a 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). 
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