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Testing Theories of Strategic Decision-making on the U.S. Supreme Court

Lempert, Daniel
http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu1367454302

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2013, Doctor of Philosophy, Ohio State University, Political Science.
The dissertation addresses competing theories of influence on the U.S. Supreme Court. In essence, the competing theoretical models differ over the location of Supreme Court policy. The Court median model proposes that the median justice sets policy; the agenda-setter model suggests that assignment of the majority opinion is an agenda-setting power that can draw policy away from the Court median; the majority median model indicates that Court policy reflects the median member of the majority coalition. All three models have theoretically compelling elements; however, there have been few systematic assessments of their empirical relevance, most of these have been limited to the final opinion-writing stage, and the evidence on their relative explanatory power is mixed. I analyze these three formal models of Court policy-making, and derive predictions that each makes for four stages of Court decision-making. Then, I test the predictions at the three non-final stages, using archival and original data for the Court terms 1946-1985. I find conditional support for the Court median and agenda-setter models.
Gregory Caldeira (Committee Chair)
Lawrence Baum (Committee Member)
William Minozzi (Committee Member)
S.M. Amadae (Committee Member)
126 p.
Political Science

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  • Lempert, D. (2013). Testing Theories of Strategic Decision-making on the U.S. Supreme Court [Doctoral dissertation, Ohio State University]. OhioLINK Electronic Theses and Dissertations Center. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu1367454302

    APA Style (7th edition)

  • Lempert, Daniel. Testing Theories of Strategic Decision-making on the U.S. Supreme Court. 2013. Ohio State University, Doctoral dissertation. OhioLINK Electronic Theses and Dissertations Center, http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu1367454302.

    MLA Style (8th edition)

  • Lempert, Daniel. "Testing Theories of Strategic Decision-making on the U.S. Supreme Court." Doctoral dissertation, Ohio State University, 2013. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu1367454302

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