Review by Choice Review
Over the past decade, Epstein (political science, Washington Univ.) has become one of the US's leading public law scholars, a position this work secures. Primarily an edited book of readings for undergraduate judicial process courses, it would also be of great benefit to graduate students and other public law scholars seeking to understand the state of the discipline at the end of the 20th century. Besides an excellent introductory essay by Epstein, the work includes chapters by some of the discipline's leading scholars: e.g., L. Baum (judicial selection), J.F. Kobylka (interest groups), T.W. Church (plea bargaining), R.L. Pacelle Jr. (agenda change in the Supreme Court), L.F. Goldstein (constitutional theory), C.H. Franklin and L.C. Kosaki (media and public attitudes). All the essays are extraordinarily well written and researched, including two appendixes by D.C. Nixon explaining statistical analysis and one by Epstein outlining public law research data sources. The price may be high for a supplementary text (and for a paperback), but this work is highly recommended for upper-division undergraduates and up. M. W. Bowers University of Nevada, Las Vegas
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