These Estimable Courts: Understanding Public Perceptions of State Judicial Institutions and Legal Policy-Making

by Damon M Cann and Jeff Yates

Book Overview

In These Estimable Courts, Damon M. Cann and Jeff Yates explore how citizens feel about the government institutions at the front lines of jurisprudential policy-making in America - our nation's state and local courts. The book's central focus concerns a primary question of governance: why do people support and find legitimate the institutions that govern their lives? Cann and Yates evaluate the factors that drive citizens' support for their state...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0199307210
• ISBN13: 9780199307210
• Release Date: February 2016
• Publisher: Oxford Univ PR
• Length: 184 Pages
• Weight: 1.40 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.3" x 9.3"