American judicial politics / Harry P. Stumpf with Kevin C. Paul.

Contents;

Part I: The judicial setting
1. Jurisprudence old and new: Conceptions of law and the judicial function
Jurisprudence

2. Political jurisprudence reconsidered
Political jurisprudence: A focus on process
Movements and countermovements: Post-Realism, legal education, and political jurispendence
etc.

3. State judicial organization
Judicial business in the states
State court systems
The politics of structure

4. The federal courts
Historical development
The federal judiciary today
Federal judicial administration
Judicial federalism


Part II: Judicial ipersonnel
5. The politics of judicial selection: The state experience
The political culture of judicial selection
Judicial selection systems in the States
An analysis of State selection system
etc.

6. Federal judicial selection
Federal district and appellate judges: the force of senatorial patronage
The Clinton administration, first term
The supreme court
etc.

7. The politics of legal advice
The attorney role
The American legal profession: A profile
The legal profession
etc.

Part III: The judicial process
8. The civil judicial process
Grievances to disputes: The transformation process
The litigious society?
Formal and informal dispute processing
etc.

9. The judicial process in criminal cases
Politics of criminal law
Conceptualizing the criminal justice process
Crime in America
etc.

10. The state appellate process
Appeals: Function and process
State intermediate appellate courts
The evolution of state supreme courts
etc.

11. Federal appeals
The United States courts of appeals
The United States supreme court
Deciding what to decide: The certiorari process


Section IV: Courts and society
12. Judicial policies: Compliance, implementation, and impact
Impact research: The state of the art
Legislative responses
Executive responses
etc.

13. American courts: An assessment
Courts as resolvers of disputes
Judicial policy-making, constitutional democracy, and social change
etc.

Name index : p. 471-480 . _ Case index : p. 481-483 . _ Subject index : p. 485-489.