An Exploratory Analysis of Judicial Activism in the United States Supreme Court's Nullification of Congressional Statutes
Description:
This study analyzes activist behavior of Supreme Court justices in 132 decisions which struck down congressional statutes as unconstitutional in 1789-1990. Analysis of the justices' activist rates and liberalism scores demonstrate that these votes are ideologically based. Integrated models containing personal attribute and case factor variables are constructed to explore the votes as activist behavior. The same models are also tested with a new dependent variable constructed to measure the null…
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Date:
August 1994
Creator:
Keith, Linda Camp