62 research outputs found
Organizational Contumacy in the Transmission of Judicial Policies: The Mapp, Escobedo, Miranda, and Gault Cases
Is the Exclusionary Rule in Failing Health? Some New Data and a Plea Against a Precipitous Conclusion
Organizational Contumacy in the Transmission of Judicial Policies: The Mapp, Escobedo, Miranda, and Gault Cases
Naming Names: The Impact of Supreme Court Opinion Attribution on Citizen Assessment of Policy Outcomes
The manner in which political institutions convey their policy outcomes can have important implications for how the public views institutions\u27 policy decisions. This paper explores whether the way in which the U.S. Supreme Court communicates its policy decrees affects how favorably members of the public assess its decisions. Specifically, we investigate whether attributing a decision to the nation\u27s High Court or to an individual justice influences the public\u27s agreement with the Court\u27s rulings. Using an experimental design, we find that when a Supreme Court outcome is ascribed to the institution as a whole, rather than to a particular justice, people are more apt to agree with the policy decision. We also find that identifying the gender of the opinion author affects public agreement under certain conditions. Our findings have important implications for how public support for institutional policymaking operates, as well as the dynamics of how the Supreme Court manages to accumulate and maintain public goodwill
Revisiting AFLP fingerprinting for an unbiased assessment of genetic structure and differentiation of taurine and zebu cattle
Constitutional Politics in the States: Contemporary Controversies and Historical Patterns. Edited by G. Alan Tarr. Westport, CT: Greenwood Press, 1996. 223p. $59.95.
Urban Politics and the Criminal Courts. By Martin A. Levin. (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1977. Pp. x + 332. $19.00.)
The Right To Die: Policy Innovation and Its Consequences. By Henry R. Glick. New York: Columbia University Press, 1992. 238p. $32.50.
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