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Edwards, George C. III and Stephen J. Wayne. 1997. Presidential Leadership: Politics and Policy Making (5th Edition)
St. Martin's Press: New York.
George Washington: Foundation of Presidential Leadership and Character. 2001 Prager / Greenwood Press. Ethan
Fishman, Mark J. Rozell, and William D. Pedersen, Editors.
Neal and Andrew Hochstetler. 2006. Choosing White Collar Crime. Cambridge University Press: New York.
Judicial Independence at the Crossroads: An Interdisciplinary Approach. 2002. Stephen B. Burbank and Barry
Friedman (Eds.) Sage Publications.
Keefe, William J. and Morris S. Ogul. 2001. The American Legislative Process: Congress and the States (10th
Edition). Prentice Hall: Englewood Cliffs, NJ.
Kyvig, David E. 2008. The Politics of Impeachment American Constitutional Culture Since 1960. University Press
of Kansas.
Maltese, John Anthony. 1995. The Selling of Supreme Court Nominees. Johns Hopkins University Press: Baltimore.
Marshall, Thomas R. 2008. Public Opinion and the Rehnquist Court. State University of New York Press.
Morris, Mark. 1998. "The Overlooked Relevance of the Pardon Power." in Presidential Frontiers Unexplored Issues
in White House Politics (Ryan J. Barrilleaux, ed.) Praeger: Westport, Connecticut.
Nemacheck, Christine L. 2008. Strategic Selection: Presidential Nomination of Supreme Court Justices from
Herbert Hoover Through George W. Bush. University of Virginia Press.
Neubauer, David W. 1999. America's Courts and the Criminal Justice System. West / Wadsworth: Belmont, California.
Neubauer, David W. 1997. Judicial Process: Law Courts and Politics in the United States (4th Edition). Harcourt
Brace: Fort Worth.
Pika, Joseph A. and John Maltese. 2008. The Politics of the Presidency. 7th Edition. Congressional Quarterly Press:
Washington, DC.
Posner, Richard A. and William Landes. 2007. "The Economics of Presidential Pardons and Commutations." John M.
Olin Law and Economics Paper No. 320. The Law School: University of Chicago.
Sarat, Austin and Nasser Hussain. 2007. Forgiveness, Mercy and Clemency. Stanford University Press: Palo Alto,
California.
Shover, Neal and Andrew Hochstetler. 2006. Choosing White Collar Crime. Cambridge University Press: New York.
Smith, Christopher. 2003. Critical Judicial Nominations and Political Change: The Impact of the Clarence Thomas
Hearings. Praeger Publishers.
Ward, Artemus. 2003. Deciding to Leave: The Politics of Retirement from the United States Supreme Court. State
University of New York Press: New York.
Whitman, James Q. 2003. Harsh Justice: Criminal Punishment and the Widening Divide Between America and
Europe. Oxford University Press.
Ainsworth, Scott H. and John Anthony Maltese. 1996. "National Grange Influence on the Supreme Court Confirmation
of Stanely Matthews." 20 Social Science History 273-285.
Binder, Sarah A. and Forrest Maltzman. 2002. "Senatorial Delay in Confirming Federal Judges, 1947 to 1998." 46
American Journal of Political Science 190-99.
Box-Steffensmeier, Janet M. and Christopher J.W. Zorn. 2003. "Duration Models and Proportional Hazards in Political
Science." 45 American Journal of Political Science 951-67.
Bratton, Kathleen A. and Rorie L Spill. 2004. "Moving up the Judicial Ladder: The Nomination of State Supreme Court
Justices to Federal Courts." 32 American Politics Research 198-218.
Crowe, Justic and Christopher F. Karpowitz. 2007. "Where Have You Gone Sherman Minton? The Decline of the
Short Term Supreme Court Justice." 5 Perspectives on Politics 425-45.
Dinan, John. 2003. "The Pardon Power and the American State Constitutional Tradition." 35 Polity 389-418.
Erler, Abbie H. 1997. "Executive Clemency or Bureaucratic Discretion: Two Models of the Pardons Process." 37
Presidential Studies Quarterly 427.
Giles, Michael W., Virginia A. Hettinger and Todd Peppers. 2001. "Picking Federal Judges: A Note on Policy and
Partisan Selection Agendas" 54 Political Research Quarterly 623-41.
Holmes, Lisa M. 2007. "Presidential Strategy in the Judicial Appointment Process." 35 American Politics Research 567-94.
Howell, William and Kenneth R. Meyer. 2005 "The Last 100 Days." 35 Presidential Studies Quarterly 533-53.
Johnson, Thomas and Jason M. Roberts. 2004. "Presidential Capital and the Supreme Court Confirmation Process." 66
Journal of Politics 663-83.
King, James D. 1996. "Senate Confirmation of Cabinet Nominations: Institutional Politics and Nominee Qualifications."
33 Social Science Journal 273-85.
Krutz, Glenn S., Richard Fleisher, and Jon R. Bond. 1998. "From Abe Fortas to Zoe Baird: Why Some Presidential
Nominations Fail in the Senate." 92 American Political Science Review 871-81.
Law, David S. and Solum, Lawrence B. 2006 "Judicial Selection, Appointments Gridlock, and the Nuclear Option."
15 Journal of Contemporary Legal Issues 51.
Martinek, Wendy L., Mark Kemper and Steven R. Van Winkle. 2002. "To Advise and Consent: The Senate and Lower
Federal Court Nominations, 1977-1998." 64 Journal of Politics 337-61.
McMahon, Kevin J. 2007. Presidents, Political Regimes, and Contentious Supreme Court Nominations: A Historical
Institutional Model. 32 Law & Social Inquiry 919-54.
Moraski, Bryon T. and Charles R. Shipan. 1999. "The Politics of Supreme Court Nominations: A Theory of Institutional
Constraints and Choices." 43 American Journal of Political Science 1069-95.
Nixon, David C. 2001. "Appointment Delay for Vacancies on the Federal Communications Commission." 61 Public
Administration Review 483-92.
Nixon, David and Roisin M. Bentley. 2005. "Appointment Delay and the Policy Environment of the National
Transportation Safety Board. Administration and Society
Ogundele, Oyu and Linda Camp Keith. 1999. "Re-examining the Impact of the Bork Nomination to the Supreme Court."
52 Political Research Quarterly 403-20.
Routh, Stephen R 2004. “The Contingency of Senate Consent: A Study of the Determinants of Roll Call Confirmation
Voting on Executive Branch Appointments, 1945-1996,” 41 The Social Science Journal 67-82.
Schaller, Thomas F. and Thomas W. Williams. 2003. "The Contemporary Presidency: Post Presidential Influence in the
Postmodern Era." 33 Presidential Studies Quarterly 188-200
Scherer, Nancy. 2001. "Who Drives the Ideological Make-Up of the Lower Federal Courts in a Divided Government?"
35 Law and Society Review 191.
Scherer, Nancy, Brandon L. Bartels and Amy Streigerwalt. 2008. “Sounding the Fire Alarm: The Role of Interest Groups
in Lower Federal Court Confirmation.” 70 Journal of Politics 1026-39.
Schraufnagel, Scot. 2005. Testing the Implications of Incivility in the U.S. Congress, 1977-2000: The Case of
Confirmation Delay." 11 Journal of Legislative Studies 216-34.
Shipan, Charles and Megan Shannon. 2003. "Delaying Justice(s): A Duration Model of Supreme Court Confirmations."
47 American Journal of Political Science 654-68.
Szmer, John and Donald Songer. 2005. "The Effects of Information on the Accuracy of Presidential Assessments of
Supreme Court Nominees Preferences." 58 Political Research Quarterly 151-60.
Ward, Artemus. 2001. "The Nominations Presidents Make: Appointing Supreme Court Justices." 28 Congress and the
Presidency 63-84.
Whitford, Andrew and Holoma Ochs. 2006 “The Political Roots of Executive Clemency.” 34 American Politics
Research. 825-46.
Zorn, Christopher and Steven R. Van Winkle. 2000. "A Competing Rick Model of Supreme Court Vacancies,
1789-1922." 22 Political Behavior 145-66.
Brundy, James J. 2003. "Recalibrating Federal Judicial Independence." 64 Ohio State University Law Review 149.
Robert B. Chapman, Robert B. 2002. "Missing Persons: Social Science and Accounting for Race, Gender, Class,
and Marriage in Bankruptcy" 76 American Bankruptcy Law Journal 347.
Krent, Harold J. 2001. "Conditioning the President's Conditional Pardon Power." 89 California Law Review (No. 6)
1665-1720.
Law, David S. 2005. “Appointing Federal Judges: The President, the Senate and the Prisoner’s Dilemma.” 26 Cardozo
Law Review 479.
Love, Margaret Colgate. 2007. "Reinventing the President's Pardon Power." 20 Federal Sentencing Reporter 6.
Love, Margaret Colgate. 2003. "The Pardon Paradox: Lessons of Clinton's Last Pardons." 31 Capital University Law
Review (No. 2) 185-218.
Love, Margaret Colgate. 2001. "Fear of Forgiving: Rule and Discretion in the Theory and Practice of Pardoning." 13
Federal Sentencing Reporter 125.
Millemann, Michael. 2006. “Collateral Remedies in Criminal Cases in Maryland: An Assessment.” 64 Maryland Law
Review 967.
Ringhand, Lori A. 2008. "I'm Sorry, I Can't Answer That": Positive Scholarship and the Supreme Court Confirmation
Process. 10 University of Pennsylvania Journal of Constitutional Law 331.
Stras, David R. and Ryan W. Scott. 2008. "Navigating the New Politics of Judicial Appointments." 102 Northwestern
University Law Review, No. 4