Cass Sunstein "Radicals in Robes: Why Extreme Right-Wing Courts Are Wrong for America" (2005), "Are Judges Political? An Empirical Analysis of the Federal Judiciary" (2005), "Infotopia: How Many Minds Produce Knowledge" (2006), and, co-authored with Richard Thaler, "Nudge: Improving Decisions about Health, Wealth, and Happiness" (2008). Sunstein's 2006 book, "Infotopia: How Many Minds Produce Knowledge", explores methods for aggregating information; it contains discussions of prediction markets, open-source software, and wikis. Sunstein's 2004 book, "The Second Bill of Rights: FDR's Unfinished Revolution and Why We Need It More than Ever", advocates the Second Bill of Rights proposed by Franklin D. Roosevelt. Among these
Cass Sunstein on significant student involvement in the work of this new program. On January 7, 2009, the "Wall Street Journal" reported that Sunstein would be named to head the White House Office of Information and Regulatory Affairs (OIRA). That news generated controversy among progressive legal scholars and environmentalists. Sunstein's confirmation was long blocked because of controversy over allegations about his political and academic views. On September 9, 2009, the Senate voted for cloture on Sunstein's nomination as Administrator of the Office of Information and Regulatory Affairs, Office of Management and Budget. The motion passed in a 63–35 vote. The Senate confirmed