The Wrong Complexion for Protection: How The Government Response to Disaster Endangers African-American Communities. By Robert D. Bullard and Beverly Wright. New York: New York University Press, 2012. 304p. $35.
The Wrong Complexion for Protection: How The Government Response to Disaster Endangers African-American Communities. By Robert D. Bullard and Beverly Wright. New York: New York University Press, 2012. 304p. $35.
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保护的错误肤色：政府对灾害的反应如何危及非裔美国社区。
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R. Turner
未来。首先，最高法院审理的任何案件的三个要素是案件的裁决、所有意见的内容以及达到前两个结果的过程。这本书令人信服的是，口头辩论对最后一个要素--过程--很重要，但问题仍然是，如果我们只对决定或意见的内容感兴趣，我们是否需要关注口头辩论。其次，最高法院的学者往往倾向于将他们的发现推广到不只是少数几位大法官，而是大多数大法官。这些作者只有两名法官的口头辩论笔记和一名法官的预测，但他们认为这些都是对最高法院总体决策的建议。但是，我想知道，布莱克门是一个典型的最高法院法官，他又是多少布莱克门？不管这些问题，关于美国最高法院的口头辩论和联盟的形成对最高法院决策中一个未被研究的部分进行了清晰而有趣的分析，对我们对这一机构的理解做出了宝贵的贡献。
the future. First, three elements of any case heard by the Supreme Court are the decision in the case, the content of all the opinions, and the process of reaching the first two outcomes. This book is convincing that oral arguments matter for the last of these elements, the process, but the question still remains whether we need to pay attention to oral arguments if we are only interested in the decision or the content of the opinions. Second, scholars of the Supreme Court frequently prefer to generalize their findings not just for a few justices but for most of justices. These authors have oral-argument notes from only two justices and predictions from only one, but they see these as suggestive for Supreme Court decision making in general. But, I wonder, how much is Blackmun being a typical Supreme Court justice and how much is he being just Blackmun? Regardless of these issues, Oral Arguments and Coalition Formation on the U.S. Supreme Court presents a clear and fascinating analysis of an understudied part of the Court’s decision making and is a valuable contribution to our understanding of this institution.