Strategic Versus Sincere Behavior: The Impact of Issue Salience and Congress on the Supreme Court Docket
Description:
The theory proposed here is that the Supreme Court behaves in a strategic manner at the agenda-setting stage in order to vote sincerely on the merits. To test this, I measure the impact issue salience and ideological distance between Congress and the Supreme Court has on the agenda. The results indicate that whether the Supreme Court behaves either sincerely or strategically depends on the policy area. The strategic nature of the Supreme Court at the agenda-setting phase may be in large part wh…
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Date:
May 2002
Creator:
Williams, Jeffrey David
Partner:
UNT Libraries