TY  - BOOK
AU  - Steigerwalt,Amy
ED  - ProQuest (Firm)
TI  - Battle over the bench: senators, interest groups, and lower court confirmations 
T2  - Constitutionalism and democracy
AV  - KF8776 .S74 2010
U1  - 347.73/14 22
PY  - 2010///
CY  - Charlottesville
PB  - University of Virginia Press
KW  - Judges
KW  - Selection and appointment
KW  - United States
KW  - Political questions and judicial power
KW  - Electronic books
N1  - Includes bibliographical references and index; Introduction : the changing tone of lower federal court confirmations -- What makes a nomination run into trouble? : Senators, Interest Groups, and the four tracks to confirmation -- Death to nominees : senatorial courtesy and the ability to "kill" judicial confirmations -- "Herding cats" : holds and private political fights -- Interest groups and judicial confirmation : a view from the Senate -- Interest groups and the decision to object : sending confirmations down the public partisan track -- Whither nominees? : the fate of nominations sent down the public partisan track -- Conclusion : what the future holds for lower court nominations and the Senate confirmation process -- Appendix A. : Data collection methodology --  Appendix B. : Variable descriptions and measurements for Tobit Regressions -- Appendix C. : Circuit Court nominations opposed by interest groups, 99th-109th Congresses (1985-2006); Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, MI : ProQuest, 2015. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest affiliated libraries
UR  - https://ebookcentral.proquest.com/lib/nird-ebooks/detail.action?docID=3443933
ER  -