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The Chief Justice: Appointment and Influence

David J. Danelski and Artemus Ward, editors 2016
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The Chief Justice brings together leading scholars of the courts who employ social science theory and research to explain the role of the Chief Justice of the U.S. Supreme Court. They consider the chief justice's appointment, office, powers, and influence both within the Court and in the American system of government more generally. The chief justice presides over oral arguments and the justices' private conferences. The chief justice speaks first in those conferences, presents cases and other matters to the other justices, and assigns the Court's opinions in all cases in which the chief justice votes with the majority. In addition, the chief justice presides over the Judicial Conference of the United States, a policy-making body composed of lower-court federal judges. As Chief Justice Charles Evans Hughes wrote, the Chief Justice of the U.S. Supreme Court is "the most important judicial officer in the world."
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ISBN(s)
  • 978-0-472-11991-2 (hardcover)
  • 978-0-472-12195-3 (ebook)
Subject
  • Political Science:Judicial Politics
  • Political Science:American Politics
  • Law:Supreme Court and Constitutional Law
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  • Table of Contents

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  • Cover
  • Title
  • Copyright
  • Dedication
  • Contents
  • Introduction
  • Part I. The Earliest Social Science Studies of the Chief Justice Revisited
    • 1. The Influence of the Chief Justice in the Decisional Process of the Supreme Court
    • 2. An Exploratory Study of Opinion Assignment by the Chief Justice Revisited
    • 3. The Influence of the Chief Justice in the Decisional Process of the Supreme Court Revisited: Personality and Leadership
  • Part II. Becoming the Chief
    • 4. Selecting the Chief: Presidential Calculation in Appointing Chief Justices
    • 5. Confirming Chiefs: Ideology, Opportunity, and the Court’s Center Chair
  • Part III. Influence on the Bench
    • 6. The Chief Justice and Oral Arguments at the U.S. Supreme Court
    • 7. Forecasting Opinion Assignment on the U.S. Supreme Court
    • 8. The Chief Justice and Procedural Power
    • 9. Honeymoon on the Court? Chief Justices and Consensus Building on the Supreme Court
    • 10. Genuine Leader or Merely “First Among Equals”? Probing the Leadership Capacity of the Chief Justice
    • 11. Herding Scorpions: The Chief Justice as Social Leader
    • 12. Troll-In-Chief? Affective Opinion Content and the Influence of the Chief Justice
    • 13. Statutory Interpretation and the Chief Justice: Activism or Judicial Discretion?
  • Part IV. Influence Off the Bench
    • 14. The Chief Justice as Administrative Leader: Explaining Agenda Size
    • 15. Be Careful With My Court: Legitimacy, Public Opinion, and the Chief Justices
  • Epilogue
  • Footnotes
  • Selected Bibliography
  • Contributors
  • Index
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