Supreme Court agenda setting : strategic behavior during case selection / Udi Sommer.
2014
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Title
Supreme Court agenda setting : strategic behavior during case selection / Udi Sommer.
Published
New York, NY : Palgrave Macmillan, 2014.
Call Number
KF8742 .S586 2014
ISBN
9781137399915 (alk. paper)
1137399910 (alk. paper)
1137399910 (alk. paper)
Description
xvi, 186 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm
System Control No.
(OCoLC)864753048
Bibliography, etc. Note
Includes bibliographical references (pages 171-181) and index.
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The Arthur W. Diamond Law Library
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Table of Contents
List of Figures
ix
List of Tables
xi
Preface
xiii
Acknowledgments
xv
1.
Introduction
1
2.
The History and Institutions of the Writ of Certiorari
13
3.
The Theoretical Framework: Case Selection and Strategic Behavior on the Court
29
4.
Voting Contingents, Cert Pivots, and Voting Volatility
45
5.
Strategic Votes on Cert: Evidence from Justices' Papers
61
6.
Opinion Authorship and Strategic Cert
83
7.
Conclusions
109
Appendix 1
SIMEX Computations
115
Appendix 2
The Judiciary Act of 1925
117
Appendix 3
Rules of the Supreme Court of the United States
129
Appendix 4
Original Material from the Blackmun Files
139
Notes
159
References
171
Index
183