Title The judicial power of the purse : how courts fund national defense in times of crisis / Nancy Staudt.

Publication Info.	Chicago, IL : University of Chicago Press, [2011]
	©2011

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Description	1 online resource (xii, 199 pages) : illustrations.
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Series	Chicago series on international & domestic institutions
	Chicago series on international and domestic institutions.
Contents	Federal judges' budgetary powers -- Pulling the purse strings : an information theory of crisis jurisprudence -- Mobilizing judicial resources : the information theory in action -- The judicial understanding of costly foreign policy events -- The next stop : the information theory in the domestic context.
Summary	Congress and the president are not the only branches that deal with fiscal issues in times of war. In this innovative book, Nancy Staudt focuses on the role of federal courts in fiscal matters during warfare and high-cost national defense emergencies. There is, she argues, a judicial power of the purse that becomes evident upon examining the budgetary effects of judicial decision making. The book provides substantial evidence that judges are willing--maybe even eager--to redirect private monies into government hands when the country is in peril, but when the judges receive convincing cues that o.
Bibliography	Includes bibliographical references (pages 177-190) and indexes.
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Subject	United States. Supreme Court -- Powers and duties -- Economic aspects.
	United States. Supreme Court.
	War and emergency legislation -- Economic aspects -- United States.
	War and emergency legislation.
	United States.
	Judicial power -- Economic aspects -- United States.
	Judicial power.
	Judge-made law -- Economic aspects -- United States.
	Judge-made law.
	Fiscal policy -- United States.
	Fiscal policy.
Genre/Form	Electronic books.
Other Form:	Print version: Staudt, Nancy. Judicial Power of the Purse : How Courts Fund National Defense in Times of Crisis. Chicago, IL : University of Chicago Press, ©2011 9780226771120
ISBN	9780226771151 (electronic book)
	0226771156 (electronic book)
	9780226771144 (paperback ; alkaline paper)
	0226771148 (paperback ; alkaline paper)
	9780226771120 (hardback ; alkaline paper)
	0226771121 (hardback ; alkaline paper)
	1283362805
	9781283362801
Standard No.	9786613362803

Title The judicial power of the purse : how courts fund national defense in times of crisis / Nancy Staudt.

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