US Supreme Court Opinions and their Audiences
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US Supreme Court Opinions and their Audiences

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US Supreme Court Opinions and their Audiences

About this book

This book is the first study specifically to investigate the extent to which US Supreme Court justices alter the clarity of their opinions based on expected reactions from their audiences. The authors examine this dynamic by creating a unique measure of opinion clarity and then testing whether the Court writes clearer opinions when it faces ideologically hostile and ideologically scattered lower federal courts; when it decides cases involving poorly performing federal agencies; when it decides cases involving states with less professionalized legislatures and governors; and when it rules against public opinion. The data shows the Court writes clearer opinions in every one of these contexts, and demonstrates that actors are more likely to comply with clearer Court opinions.

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Yes, you can access US Supreme Court Opinions and their Audiences by Ryan C. Black,Ryan J. Owens,Justin Wedeking,Patrick C. Wohlfarth in PDF and/or ePUB format, as well as other popular books in Law & Law Theory & Practice. We have over one million books available in our catalogue for you to explore.

Information

Publisher
Cambridge University Press
Year
2016
Print ISBN
9781107137141
eBook ISBN
9781316682418
Topic
Law
Subtopic
Law Theory & Practice
Index
Law

Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Half-title
  3. Title page
  4. Copyright information
  5. Dedication
  6. Table of contents
  7. Acknowledgement
  8. 1 Introduction
  9. 2 A theory: using opinion clarity to enhance compliance and manage public support
  10. 3 Estimating the clarity of Supreme Court opinions
  11. 4 Supreme Court opinions and federal circuit courts
  12. 5 Supreme Court opinions and federal agency implementors
  13. 6 Supreme Court opinions and the states
  14. 7 Supreme Court opinions and the secondary population
  15. 8 Establishing compliance as a function of clarity
  16. 9 Conclusion
  17. References
  18. Index