Monday, December 2, 2019

The Company They Keep

Neal Devins and Lawrence Baum, The Company They Keep: How Partisan Divisions Came to the Supreme Court (Oxford University Press, 2019).

As the eminent law and politics scholars Neal Devins and Lawrence Baum show in The Company They Keep, justices today are reacting far more to subtle social forces in their own elite legal world than to pressure from the other branches of government or mass public opinion. In particular, the authors draw from social psychology research to show why Justices are apt to follow the lead of the elite social networks that they are a part of.
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