Wednesday, January 29, 2014

A Mere Machine: The Supreme Court, Congress, and American Democracy

Anna Harvey (New York University).  A Mere Machine (Yale University Press, 2013).

"In this groundbreaking new work, Anna Harvey reports evidence showing that the Supreme Court is in fact extraordinarily deferential to congressional preferences in its constitutional findings.  Analyzing cross-national evidence, Harvey also finds that the rights protections we enjoy in the United States appear to be largely due to the fact that we do not have an independent Supreme Court."
A Mere Machine Book Jacket