Law, politics, & perception [electronic resource] : how policy preferences influence legal reasoning / Eileen Braman.
Series: Constitutionalism and democracyPublication details: Charlottesville : University of Virginia Press, 2009.Description: xxi, 231 p. : illISBN:- 9780813928296 (cloth : alk. paper)
- 081392829X (cloth : alk. paper)
- 0813928370 (e-book)
- 9780813928371 (e-book)
- Law, politics, and perception
- 340/.11 22
- KF380 .B615 2009eb
eBooks
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Outlining a theory of motivated cognition in legal decision making -- A motivated reasoning approach to the commerce clause interpretation of the Rehnquist court -- Seeing what they want? : analogical perceptions in discrimination disputes (with Thomas E. Nelson) -- Reasoning on the threshold : testing the separability of preferences in legal decision making -- Justifying outcomes? : how legal decision makers explain threshold decisions -- Motivated reasoning as an empirical framework : finding our way back to context.
Electronic reproduction. Palo Alto, Calif. : ebrary, 2013. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ebrary affiliated libraries.