[图书][B] A mere machine: the Supreme Court, Congress, and American democracy

A Harvey - 2013 - books.google.com
Introductory textbooks on American government tell us that the Supreme Court is
independent from the elected branches and that independent courts better protect rights
than their more deferential counterparts. But are these facts or myths? div/DIVdivIn this
groundbreaking new work, Anna Harvey reports evidence showing that the Supreme Court
is in fact extraordinarily deferential to congressional preferences in its constitutional rulings.
Analyzing cross-national evidence, Harvey also finds that the rights protections we enjoy in …

A Mere Machine: The Supreme Court, Congress, and American Democracy. By Anna Harvey. New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 2013. 384p. 37.00 paper.

KE Whittington - Perspectives on Politics, 2016 - cambridge.org
March 2016| Vol. 14/No. 1 233 https://doi. org/10.1017/S1537592715003801 Published
online by Cambridge University Press and judicial politics broadly. The primary focus of the
book is on the Supreme Court's exercise of the power of judicial review over acts of
Congress since the midtwentieth century. The primary claim, which is explored with creativity
and depth, is that the policy preferences of the current Congress impose a significant
constraint on the willingness of the Court to invalidate federal statutes that come up for …
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