Description: Examines and measures the extent to which statutory language affects judicial behavior.
Brief description: Richard W. Waterman is Professor of Political Science at the University of Kentucky. He is the coauthor, with Kirk A. Randazzo, of Checking the Courts: Law, Ideology, and Contingent Discretion, also published by SUNY Press.
Review Quotes:
"Checking the Courts presents a way of conceptualizing how both the expressed preferences of lawmakers and a judge's own ideology influence judicial behavior, an idea that will interest any student of the judiciary." -- Harvard Law Review
"...the authors deserve much credit for the extensive and unquestionably time-consuming research reported in this book." -- Criminal Law and Criminal Justice Books