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Agenda Setting, Issue Priorities, And Organizational Maintenance: The U.S. Supreme Court, 1955 To 1994, Jeff L. Yates, Andrew B. Whitford, William Gillespie

Jeff L Yates

In this study, we examine agenda setting by the U.S. Supreme Court, and ask the question of why the Court allocates more or less of its valuable agenda space to one policy issue over others. Our study environment is the policy issue composition of the Court's docket: the Court's attention to criminal justice policy issues relative to other issues. We model the Court's allocation of this agenda space as a function of internal organizational demands and external political signals. We find that this agenda responds to the issue priorities of the other branches of the federal government and the public. …

Full Twenty-Year List Of Important Enactments, 1991-2014 (Credit To R. Douglas Arnold And Helene Wood), David R. Mayhew

David Mayhew

List Of Important Enactments, 1947-1990 (Pp. 52-73), David R. Mayhew

David Mayhew

No abstract provided.

List Of Important Enactments, 2011-2012, David R. Mayhew

David Mayhew

Comments On Selecting Enactments, 1991-2002, David R. Mayhew

David Mayhew

No abstract provided.

List Of Important Enactments, 2005-2006, David R. Mayhew

David Mayhew

Tribute To Nelson W. Polsby At Panel Honoring Him, Annual Apsa Conference, David R. Mayhew

David Mayhew

No abstract provided.