Strategic Versus Sincere Behavior: The Impact of Issue Salience and Congress on the Supreme Court Docket Page: 2
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Williams, Jeffrey David, Strategic Versus Sincere Behavior: The Impact of Issue
Salience and Congress on the Supreme Court Docket. Master of Arts (Political Science),
May 2002, 51 pp., 7 tables, references, 28 titles.
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 why some research
shows that the Court behaves sincerely when voting on the merits. By behaving
strategically at the agenda-setting phase, the Court is free to vote sincerely in later parts
of the judicial process.
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Williams, Jeffrey David. Strategic Versus Sincere Behavior: The Impact of Issue Salience and Congress on the Supreme Court Docket, thesis, May 2002; Denton, Texas. (https://digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc3106/m1/2/: accessed April 23, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, UNT Digital Library, https://digital.library.unt.edu; .