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Ch.15 The Federal Judiciary & Ch.16Core Democratic Principles and…
Ch.15 The Federal Judiciary & Ch.16Core Democratic Principles and Public Policy
The Concept of the Federal Judiciary
The Jurisdiction of the Federal Courts
Jurisdiction defined in the constitution
original and appellate jurisdiction
The power of congress to define jurisdiction of Federal Courts
Jurisdiction determined by judicial interpretation
The Structure and Organization of Federal Courts
The district courts
The courts of Appeals
The U.S. Supreme court
The Selection and Background of Federal Judges
Party Affiliation and philosophy
Balancing the representativeness of the court
geography, religion, race and ethnicity, gender
Judicial Experience and merit
Confirmation politics in the senate
Judicial Decision Making
Models of judicial decision making
legal model, legal realist model, slot machine theory, and strategic model
Evidence of political influence of judicial decision making
Judicial Review in a Democratic Society
The origins of judicial review
Concepts of judicial review
Patterns in the exercise of judicial review
Constraints on the exercise of judicial review
impeachment, amendments to the constitution, appointments, control of the court's appellate jurisdiction, no power to initiate policymaking, lack of enforcement power, and self-restraint
The Concept of Public policy
The Stages of Policymaking
Agenda setting, agenda setters
Garbage can models of agenda setting
choosing issues
Policy formation and adoption
policy implementation
Policy evaluation
Public Policy and Core Democratic values
Majority Rule
political freedom
political equality