{"product_id":"strategic-selection-christine-nemacheck-9780813926148","title":"Strategic Selection: Presidential Nomination of Supreme Court Justices from Herbert Hoover Through George W. Bush","description":"\u003cp\u003eThe process by which presidents decide whom to nominate to fill Supreme Court vacancies is obviously of far-ranging importance, particularly because the vast majority of nominees are eventually confirmed. But why is one individual selected from among a pool of presumably qualified candidates? In \u003ci\u003eStrategic Selection: Presidential Nomination of Supreme Court Justices from Herbert Hoover through George W. Bush, \u003c\/i\u003e Christine Nemacheck makes heavy use of presidential papers to reconstruct the politics of nominee selection from Herbert Hoover's appointment of Charles Evan Hughes in 1930 through President George W. Bush's nomination of Samuel Alito in 2005. Bringing to light firsthand evidence of selection politics and of the influence of political actors, such as members of Congress and presidential advisors, from the initial stages of formulating a short list through the president's final selection of a nominee, Nemacheck constructs a theoretical framework that allows her to assess the factors impacting a president's selection process.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eMuch work on Supreme Court nominations focuses on struggles over confirmation, or is heavily based on anecdotal material and posits the \"idiosyncratic\" nature of the selection process; in contrast, \u003ci\u003eStrategic Selection\u003c\/i\u003e points to systematic patterns in judicial selection. Nemacheck argues that although presidents try to maximize their ideological preferences and minimize uncertainty about nominees' conduct once they are confirmed, institutional factors that change over time, such as divided government and the institutionalism of the presidency, shape and constrain their choices. By revealing the pattern of strategic action, which she argues is visible from the earliest stages of the selection process, Nemacheck takes us a long way toward understanding this critically important part of our political system.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Christine Nemacheck\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 0813926149\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780813926148\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e University of Virginia Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 03\/21\/2007\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 192\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Hardcover\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.85lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.75h x 6.50w x 0.82d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eReview Citation(s): \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eReference and Research Bk News\u003c\/i\u003e 05\/01\/2007 pg. 189","brand":"Christine Nemacheck","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":47135252414719,"sku":"9780813926148","price":44.5,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_52a03514-e083-4a42-9ede-26fd52f794a8.jpg?v=1755009589","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/strategic-selection-christine-nemacheck-9780813926148","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}