Courthouse Democracy and Minority Rights: Same-Sex Marriage in the States

Author:   Robert J. Hume (Associate Professor, Associate Professor, Fordham University, Katonah, NY, USA)
Publisher:   Oxford University Press Inc
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9780199982172


Pages:   230
Publication Date:   02 May 2013
Format:   Hardback
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Author:   Robert J. Hume (Associate Professor, Associate Professor, Fordham University, Katonah, NY, USA)
Publisher:   Oxford University Press Inc
Imprint:   Oxford University Press Inc
Dimensions:   Width: 23.60cm , Height: 2.30cm , Length: 16.30cm
Weight:   0.485kg
ISBN:  

9780199982172


ISBN 10:   0199982171
Pages:   230
Publication Date:   02 May 2013
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   Manufactured on demand   Availability explained
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Table of Contents

Preface Part One: Introduction Chapter 1: Promises, Promises Chapter 2: Understanding the Impact of State Supreme Courts Part Two: The Legal Context Chapter 3: Early Same-Sex Marriage Decisions Chapter 4: Massachusetts and Beyond Part Three: An Analysis of State Judicial Impact Chapter 5: Policy Initiation: The Diffusion of Same-Sex Marriage Cases Across the States Chapter 6: Policy Legitimation: Evaluating the Capacity of State Courts to Change Public Opinion Chapter 7: Policy Endurance: The Enactment of State Constitutional Amendments Prohibiting Same-Sex Marriage Chapter 8: The Promise of State Courts Works Cited

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With lots of footnotes, plenty of charts and graphs, and the expected numbers-crunching, Courtroom Democracy and Minority Rights is clearly intended for fellow academics, grad students, and senior political science majors. However, a general reader can learn plenty from the book. -- Blake Maddux, DigBoston.com


"""With lots of footnotes, plenty of charts and graphs, and the expected numbers-crunching, Courtroom Democracy and Minority Rights is clearly intended for fellow academics, grad students, and senior political science majors. However, a general reader can learn plenty from the book."" -- Blake Maddux, DigBoston.com ""The state same-sex marriage cases offer lessons about the capacities of state courts to bring about dramatic policy changes (lessons that Hume derives from solid research and skillful analysis of existing and his own original data). In addition, Hume offers a plausible argument that state courts were the catalysts that made same-sex marriage possible."" -- Philip A. Dynia, The Law and Politics Book Review"


With lots of footnotes, plenty of charts and graphs, and the expected numbers-crunching, Courtroom Democracy and Minority Rights is clearly intended for fellow academics, grad students, and senior political science majors. However, a general reader can learn plenty from the book. -- Blake Maddux, DigBoston.com The state same-sex marriage cases offer lessons about the capacities of state courts to bring about dramatic policy changes (lessons that Hume derives from solid research and skillful analysis of existing and his own original data). In addition, Hume offers a plausible argument that state courts were the catalysts that made same-sex marriage possible. -- Philip A. Dynia, The Law and Politics Book Review With lots of footnotes, plenty of charts and graphs, and the expected numbers-crunching, Courtroom Democracy and Minority Rights is clearly intended for fellow academics, grad students, and senior political science majors. However, a general reader can learn plenty from the book. -- Blake Maddux, DigBoston.com The state same-sex marriage cases offer lessons about the capacities of state courts to bring about dramatic policy changes (lessons that Hume derives from solid research and skillful analysis of existing and his own original data). In addition, Hume offers a plausible argument that state courts were the catalysts that made same-sex marriage possible. -- Philip A. Dynia, The Law and Politics Book Review


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Robert J. Hume is an Associate Professor of Political Science at Fordham University, with degrees from the College of the Holy Cross (B.A.) and the University of Virginia (M.A., Ph.D.). His research interests are in the areas of constitutional law and judicial policy development, with particular emphasis on the impact of court decisions. His first book, How Courts Impact Federal Administrative Behavior (2009), won the 2010 Alpha Sigma Nu Book Award in Professional Studies. He has also published in American Politics Research, the Law & Society Review, the Journal of Empirical Legal Studies, Justice System Journal, and Publius.

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