Popular Justice

Jeff Yates is Assistant Professor of Political Science at the University of Georgia.

"Most students of judicial behavior and not a few students of presidential behavior should find this volume interesting and enlightening." — Political Communication"There is much to like in this book. It advances our knowledge of presidential influences on court judgments, contains useful prescriptive recommendations, and demonstrates the usefulness of quantitative analysis in examining the presidential-Supreme Court relationship." — Stephen J. Wayne, coauthor of Presidential Leadership: Politics and Policy Making"What I find most impressive about this book is its integration of the literature from the last twenty years on the relationship between the Court and the executive branch into a multi-variate analysis. Most of the literature has been descriptive in nature, often doctrinal, and when empirical it has been limited to descriptive statistics with little causal analysis. This book moves beyond those accounts and attempts to develop a causal model utilizing multi-variate statistical techniques. The result is an account which is both rigorous and robust." — Reginald Sheehan, coauthor of Continuity and Change on the United States Courts of Appeals

• Figures Tables 1. Introduction 2. Presidential Prestige and Judicial Decision Making 3. Supreme Court Support for the Formal Constitutional and Statutory Powers of the President: Does Public Approval Promote Presidential Power with the Court 4. Presidential Power Via the Federal Agencies: Presidential Approval and Justice Voting on the President's Bureaucratic Policy Implementers 5. Presidential Policy Signals and Supreme Court Justice Decision Making: Examining the Bounds of Presidential Influence on Justice Policy Voting 6. Conclusion Notes References Index