(Library ebook) The Behavior of Federal Judges: A Theoretical and Empirical Study of Rational Choice
❀ Lee Epstein, William M. Landes, Richard A. Posner ❀
| #390194 in Books | 2013-01-07 | 2012-11-19 | Original language:English | PDF # 1 | 9.30 x1.50 x6.50l,1.80 | File Name: 0674049896 | 440 pages
||8 of 11 people found the following review helpful.| Insightful, though questionable conclusions at times|By Cody|Overall a very accessible and though-provoking book, it is held back somewhat by an apparent vendetta against Judge Edwards and some questionable conclusions. In particular the book indicates that judges lack self-understanding, and at times can take an extremely patronizing tone towards them. Overall though a worth||The Behavior of Federal Judges has the potential to radically reorient the entire field of research into judicial behavior, one of the most exciting fields in law, economics, and political science. Epstein, Landes, and Posner go beyond the artificial d
Judges play a central role in the American legal system, but their behavior as decision-makers is not well understood, even among themselves. The system permits judges to be quite secretive (and most of them are), so indirect methods are required to make sense of their behavior. Here, a political scientist, an economist, and a judge work together to construct a unified theory of judicial decision-making. Using statistical methods to test hypotheses, they dispel the m...
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