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• Title:Judging inequality : state supreme courts and the inequality crisis / James L. Gibson and Michael J. Nelson.
  
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• Author/Creator:Gibson, James L., 1951- author.
  
• Other Contributors/Collections:Nelson, Michael J., 1986- author.
  
• Published/Created:New York, New York : Russell Sage Foundation, [2021]
  

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  • Location:Temporarily shelved at LAW LIBRARY (level 3)Where is this?
    c.2  Temporarily shelved at LAW LIBRARY reference room (level 2)
    
  • Call Number: KF4764 .G53 2021
    
  • Number of Items:2
    
  • Status:Available
    

   
• Library of Congress Subjects:United States. Supreme Court.
  Equality before the law--United States--States.
  Courts of last resort--United States--States.
  Equality before the law--United States.
  
• Description:xxii, 356 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm
  
• Summary:"This book investigates the policies made by state high courts that pertain to the seemingly inexorable rise of political, legal, economic, and social inequality in the United States, using data assembled by the authors on the equality-relevant decisions made by the state supreme courts from 1990 to 2015"-- Provided by publisher.
  
• Notes:Includes bibliographical references (pages 319-341) and index.
  
• ISBN:9780871545039 paperback
  0871545039 paperback
  9781610449076 electronic book
  
• Contents:Machine generated contents note: ch. 1 Role of State Supreme Courts in Creating Public Policies That Affect Political, Legal, Economic, and Social Inequality
  ch. 2 Political, Legal, Economic, and Social Inequality State Supreme Court Database
  ch. 3 Do the Haves Come Out Ahead in the State High Courts?
  ch. 4 Backgrounds and Ideologies of State Supreme Court Justices
  ch. 5 Institutions
  ch. 6 Capture of State Supreme Courts by State Political Regimes
  ch. 7 Accounting for the Voting Behavior of State Supreme Court Justices on Cases Pertinent to Inequality
  ch. 8 When Do Courts Advance Equality?
  ch. 9 State Supreme Courts and Political, Legal, Economic, and Social Inequality.