Form yourown evaluations of the organization, function, and impact of the courts on and within government with the brief, affordable JUDICIAL PROCESS AND JUDICIAL POLICYMAKING. The textbook focuses on policy in its discussion of the judicial process, based on four premises: 1) that courts in the U.S. have always played an important role in governing and that their role has increased in recent decades; 2) that judicial policymaking is a distinctive activity; 3) that courts make policy in a variety of ways; and 4) that courts may be the objects of public policy, as well as creators.
- ISBN10 0534602436
- ISBN13 9780534602437
- Publish Date 5 April 2005
- Publish Status Out of Print
- Out of Print 12 December 2013
- Publish Country US
- Publisher Cengage Learning, Inc
- Imprint Wadsworth Publishing Co Inc
- Edition 4th Revised edition
- Format Paperback
- Pages 392
- Language English