Acknowledgements
Chapter 1 Introduction
Chapter 2 Federal Prosecution Yesterday and Today
Chapter 3 Confirming U.S. Attorneys
Chapter 4 Departures & Removals
Chapter 5 Theorizing Political Responsiveness in Prosecutorial
Decision Making
Chapter 6 To Prosecute or Not: Prosecutors as Agenda Setters
Chapter 7 The Charging & Bargaining Decisions
Chapter 8 Criminal Asset Forfeiture as a Political Tool
Chapter 9 Conclusion: The Political Prosecutor Today and Tomorrow
Christina L. Boyd is an Associate Professor of Political Science
and holds affiliations with the Criminal Justice Program and School
of Law at the University of Georgia. Boyd received her Ph.D. in
political science from Washington University in St. Louis and her
J.D. from Wake Forest University. Her research examines federal
trial courts, judicial diversity, the legal process, and empirical
legal studies. She is the winner of the 2008 Midwest
Political Science Association Best Paper Award, along with
university teaching and mentoring awards.
Michael J. Nelson is Jeffrey L. Hyde and Sharon D. Hyde and
Political Science Board of Visitors Early Career Professor in
Political Science, Associate Professor of Political Science and
Social Data Analytics, and Affiliate Law Faculty at Pennsylvania
State University. He studies the causes and consequences of
judicial power in the United States and abroad.
Ian Ostrander is an Assistant Professor in the Department of
Political Science at Michigan State University. Ian received his
Ph.D. from Washington University in St. Louis and has also spent
time working within the Senate as a 2012-2013 APSA Congressional
Fellow in Washington D.C. Ian's research and teaching interests
primarily concern American political institutions with a particular
emphasis on executive nominations to bureaucratic and judicial
posts, presidential
policy-making and agenda-setting powers, the development of Senate
procedure, and the importance of congressional staff.
Ethan D. Boldt is an Assistant Professor in the Department of
Political Science and Public Policy at North Dakota State
University where he teaches American politics, constitutional law,
and judicial process. His research focuses on the criminal justice
system, courts, and law. His work has been published in such
journals as Political Research Quarterly, Journal of Law & Courts,
and Criminal Justice Policy Review. He holds degrees from the
University of Georgia (Ph.D. in political science) and Illinois
State University (B.S. in criminal justice and political science).
The Politics of Federal Prosecution is an impressive piece of
research. The authors' extensive evidence and compelling results
disrupt fantasies of independent, isolated, or apolitical federal
prosecutors. It will serve to instruct readers unfamiliar with USAs
and the political climate in which they operate, while inspiring
future work in judicial politics and bureaucratic control.
*Lauren Mattioli, Boston University, Congress & the Presidency*
I suspect that this book will work well in upper-level
undergraduate courses focused on law and politics or criminal
justice. It would also be useful in graduate courses on criminal
justice or the federal bureaucracy, among others.
*Banks Miller, Law and Politics Book Review*
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