Measuring issue salience

American Journal of Political Science

Volumn 44, Issue 1, 2000, Pages 66-83

  Epstein, Lee ^a   Segal, Jeffrey A ^b  

^a WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b STONY BROOK UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

EID: 0034341233     PISSN: 00925853     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2307/2669293     Document Type: Article

References (55)

1. Biskupic, Joan, and Elder Witt. 1997. Congressional Quarterly's Guide to the Supreme Court. 3rd ed. Washington, D.C.: Congressional Quarterly.
2. Blasi, Vincent. 1983. The Burger Court. New Haven: Yale University Press.
3. Brenner, Saul, and Harold J. Spaeth. 1995. Stare Indecisis, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
4. Brenner, Saul. 1989. "Fluidity on the United States Supreme Court: A Reexamination." In American Court Systems, ed. Sheldon Goldman and Austin Sarat. New York: Longman.
5. Caldeira, Gregory A., and John R. Wright. 1988. "Organized Interests and Agenda Setting in the U.S. Supreme Court." American Political Science Review 82:1109-1127.
6. Canon, Bradley C., and Charles A. Johnson. 1998. Judicial Policies: Implementation and Impact 2nd edition. Washington, D.C.: CQ Press.
7. City of Boerne v. Flores. 1997. 521 U.S. 507.
8. Cook, Beverly. 1993. "Measuring the Significance of U.S. Supreme Court Decisions." Journal of Politics 55:1127-1139.
9. Danelski, David J. 1989. "The Influence of the Chief Justice in the Decisional Process of the Supreme Court." In American Court Systems, ed. Sheldon Goldman and Austin Sarat. New York: Longman.
10. Davis, Sue. 1990. "Power on the Court: Chief Justice Rehnquist's Opinion Assignments." Judicature 74:66-72.
11. Edwards, George C., William Mitchell, and Reed Welch. 1995. "Explaining Presidential Approval: The Significance of Issue Salience." American Journal of Political Science 39: 108-134.
12. Epstein, Lee, and Jack Knight. 1995. "Documenting Strategic Interaction on the U.S. Supreme Court. Presented at the annual meeting of the American Political Science Association, Chicago Ill.
13. Epstein, Lee, and Jack Knight. 1998. The Choices Justices Make. Washington, D.C.: CQ Press.
14. Epstein, Lee, Jeffrey A. Segal, Harold J. Spaeth, and Thomas G. Walker. 1994. 1996. The Supreme Court Compendium. Washington, D.C.: Congressional Quarterly.
15. Epstein, Lee, and Thomas G. Walker. 1998. Constitutional Law for a Changing America. (Volumes I and II). Washington, D.C.: CQ Press.
16. Eskridge, William N, Jr. 1991. "Overriding Supreme Court Statutory Interpretation Decisions." Yale Law Journal 101:331-417.
17. Fenno, Richard F. 1978. Home Style; Representatives in their Districts. Boston: Little, Brown.
18. Flemming, Roy B., John Bohte, and B. Dan Wood. 1997. "One Voice Among Many: The Supreme Court's Influence on Attentiveness to Issues in the United States, 1947-1992." American Journal of Political Science 41:1224-1250.
19. Furman v. Georgia. 1972. 408 U.S. 238
20. Gunther, Gerald, and Kathleen M. Sullivan. 1997. Constitutional Law. 13th ed. Westbury, N.Y.: Foundation.
21. Haines, Dennis. 1977. "Rolling Back the Top on Chief Justice Burger's Opinion Assignment Desk." University of Pittsburgh Law Review 38:631-695.
22. Kluger, Richard. 1976. Simple Justice. New York: Random House.
23. Maltzman, Forest, and Paul J. Wahlbeck. 1996a. "May It Please the Chief? Opinion Assignments in the Rehnquist Court." American Journal of Political Science 40:421-443.
24. Maltzman, Forest, and Paul J. Wahlbeck. 1996b. "Strategic Policy Considerations and Voting Fluidity on the Burger Court." American Political Science Review 90:581-592.
25. Martin, Paul. 1998. "Reassessing the Attitudinal Approach: Case Significance and Votes on the Merits." Presented at the annual meeting of the Midwest Political Science Association.
26. Mayhew, David R. 1991. Divided We Govern. New Haven: Yale University Press.
27. Mayhew, David R. 1974. The Electoral Connection, New Haven: Yale University Press.
28. Melone, Albert P. 1990. "Revisiting the Freshman Effect Hypothesis." Judicature 74:6-13.
29. Miller, Matthew. 1998. "Sign of the Times." U.S News & World Report, July 13.
30. Murphy, Walter F. 1964. Elements of Judicial Strategy. Chicago: University of Chicago Press.
31. O'Brien, David M. 1995. Constitutional Law and Politics (Volumes I and II). New York: Norton.
32. Palmer, Jan. 1990. The Vinson Court Era. New York: AMS Press.
33. Perry, H. W. 1991. Deciding to Decide. Cambridge: Harvard University Press.
34. Piscataway Township Board of Education v. Taxman. 1997. 522 U.S. 1010.
35. Pritchett, C. Herman. 1941. &Divisions of Opinion Among Justices of the U.S. Supreme Court, 1939-1941." American Political Science Review 35:890-898.
36. R.A.V. v. City of St Paul. 1992. 505 U.S. 377.
37. Roe v. Wade. 1973. 410 U.S. 113.
38. Rohde, David W. 1972. "Policy Goals, Strategic Choice, and Majority Opinion Assignments in the U.S. Supreme Court." American Journal of Political Science 16:652-682.
39. Schwartz, Bernard. 1983. Super Chief. New York: New York University Press.
40. Schwartz, Bernard. 1990. The Ascent of Pragmatism: The Burger Court in Action. Reading, Mass.: Addison-Wesley.
41. Segal, Jeffrey A., and Harold J. Spaeth. 1993. The Supreme Court and the Attitudinal Model. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
42. Segal, Jeffrey A., and Harold J. Spaeth. 1996. "The Influence of Stare Decisis on the Vote of United States Supreme Court Justices." American Journal of Political Science 40:971-1003.
43. Sherman, Rorie. 1988. "The Media and the Law." National Law Journal, June 6, p. 32.
44. Slotnick, Elliot E. 1978. "The Chief Justice and Self Assignment of Majority Opinions." Western Political Quarterly 12:318-332.
45. Slotnick, Elliot E. 1979. "Who Speaks for the Court? Majority Opinion Assignment from Taft to Burger." American Journal of Political Science 23:60-75.
46. Spaeth, Harold J. 1984. "Distributive Justice: Majority Opinion Assignments in the Burger Court." Judicature 67:299-304.
47. Spaeth, Harold J. 1997a. United States Supreme Court Judicial Database. Ann Arbor: Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research, #6557.
48. Spaeth, Harold J. 1997b. Expanded United States Supreme Court Judicial Database. Ann Arbor: Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research, #9422.
49. Stevens, John Paul. 1990. Dissenting Opinion in United States v. Dalm. 494 U.S. 596, at 612.
50. Ulmer, S. Sidney. 1970. "The Use of Power in the Supreme Court." The opinion Assignments of Earl Warren, 1953-1960." Journal of Public Law 19:49-67.
51. Urofsky, Melvin I. 1991. The Continuity of Change. Belmont, Calif.: Wadsworth.
52. U.S. Term Limits Inc. v. Thornton. 1995. 514 U.S. 779.
53. Vasquez v. Hillery. 1986. 474 U.S. 254.
54. Wahlbeck, Paul J., James F. Spriggs II, and Forrest Maltzman. 1998. "Marshalling the Court: Bargaining and Accommodation on the Supreme Court. American Journal of Political Science 42:294-315.
55. Witt, Elder. 1990. Congressional Quarterly's Guide to the Supreme Court. 2nd ed. Washington, D.C.: Congressional Quarterly.