Law, politics, and perception : how policy preferences influence legal reasoning / Eileen Braman.

Charlottesville : University of Virginia Press, 2009.

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Law -- United States -- Methodology.

Judicial process -- United States.

Political questions and judicial power -- United States.

Law -- United States -- Psychological aspects.

Part I. The case for investigating motivated reasoning in legal decision making

1. Outlining a theory of motivated cognition in legal decision making

2. A motivated reasoning approach to the commerce clause interpretation of the Rehnquist court

Part II. Testing the mechanisms

3. Seeing what they want? : analogical perceptions in discrimination disputes (with Thomas E. Nelson)

4. Reasoning on the threshold : testing the separability of preferences in legal decision making

5. Justifying outcomes? : how legal decision makers explain threshold decisions

6. Motivated reasoning as an empirical framework : finding our way back to context.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

9780813928296

xxi, 231 p. : ill. ; 24 cm