An interdisciplinary collection of major essays on reasoning by a well-known group of philosophers, psychologists and cognitive scientists.

Are appointment politics and court decisions linked? Do presidents use judicial appointments to shape their policy agendas? C. K. Rowland and Robert A. Carp provide definitive ...

Published in association with the American Society for Public Administration Research in Public Administration offers a comprehensive view of research in the field of public ...

In Ethics for Policymaking Eugene Meehan presents a sustained argument in favor of a particular perspective on the relationship between normative judgments or arguments and ...

How did the US judiciary become so powerful—powerful enough that state and federal judges once vied to decide a presidential election? What does this prominence mean for the ...

Offers a critique of the political goals of legal scholars, seeking to expose the extent to which both jurisprudence and political theory are subject to “an ideology of ...

Barry Sharpe examines Hannah Arendt's Eichmann in Jerusalem and the controversy it spurred as a way of exploring basic features and issues of judgment. After giving careful ...

This book is designed for political science courses in American constitutional law ... each of the essays introducing the twelve chapters in this book ... provide[s] historical ...