The role of federal district courts on desegregation: A logistic regression analysis of the factors that influence prodesegregation outcomes.
Description:
In this study I analyzed the 1089 desegregation outcomes in federal district courts that occurred between 1994 and 2004 in order to identify a) the legal and non-legal factors in the litigation process that predict pro-desegregation outcomes and b) the judicial patterns that impact the future of desegregation policy. Twenty-one legal and non-legal variables were analyzed via logistic regression analysis to identify factors that predict pro-desegregation outcomes. Only three predictor variable…
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Date:
December 2008
Creator:
Lane, Ginny G.
Partner:
UNT Libraries