Of Time And Judicial Behavior: United States Supreme Court Agenda Setting and Decision-Making, 1888-1997

Lanier (political science, U. of Central Florida) analyzes the shape of and influences on the agenda-setting mechanism and decision making of the US Supreme Court during its earlier years, to provide a base against which findings from the many studies of the judicial body after World War II can be compared. Distributed in the US by Associated University Presses. Annotation ©2003 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR