Pulling punches: Congressional constraints on the Supreme Court's constitutional rulings, 1987-2000

Legislative Studies Quarterly

Volumn 31, Issue 4, 2006, Pages 533-562

  Harvey, Anna ^a   Friedman, Barry ^a  

^a NEW YORK UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

EID: 33947422048     PISSN: 03629805     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3162/036298006X201922     Document Type: Article

References (76)

1. Aldrich, John H. 1995. Why Parties? The Origin and Transformation of Party Politics in America. Chicago, IL: University of Chicago Press.
2. Bailey, Michael. 2005. "Bridging Institutions and Time: Creating Comparable Preference Estimates for Presidents, Senators, and Justices, 1946-2002." Working Paper, Georgetown University.
3. Bailey, Michael, and Kelly H. Chang. 2001. "Comparing Presidents, Senators, and Justices: Intel-institutional Preference Estimation." Journal of Law, Economics, and Organization 17: 477-506.
4. Barnicki et al. v. Vopper et al. 2001. 532 U.S. 514.
5. Beck, Nathaniel. 1998. "Modeling Space and Time: The Event History Approach." In Research Strategies in the Social Sciences, ed. Elinor Scarbrough and Eric Tanenbaum. Oxford: Oxford University Press.
6. Beck, Nathaniel, Jonathan N. Katz, and Richard Tucker. 1998. "Taking Time Seriously: Time-Series-Cross-Section Analysis with a Binary Dependent Variable." American Journal of Political Science 42: 1260-88.
7. Bergara, Mario, Barak Richman, and Pablo T. Spiller. 2003. "Modeling Supreme Court Strategic Decision Making: The Congressional Constraint." Legislative Studies Quarterly 28: 247-80.
8. Bork, Robert H. 1997. The Tempting of America: The Political Seduction of the Law. New York: Free Press.
9. Caldeira, Gregory A., and Donald J. McCrone. 1982. "Of Time and Judicial Activism: A Study of the U.S. Supreme Court, 1800-1973." In Supreme Court Activism and Restraint, ed. Stephen C. Halpern and Charles M. Lamb, Lexington, MA: Lexington Books.
10. Congressional Research Service, Library of Congress. 2001. The Constitution of the United States of America: Analysis and Interpretation - Annotations of Cases Decided by the Supreme Court of the United States to June 29, 2001. S. Doc. No. 103-6.
11. Cox, D.R. 1975. "Partial Likelihood." Biometrika 63: 269-76.
12. Cross, Frank B., and Blake J. Nelson. 2001. "Strategic Institutional Effects on Supreme Court Decisionmaking." Northwestern University Law Review 95: 1437-93.
13. Dion, Douglas, and John Huber. 1996. "Party Leadership and Procedural Choice in Legislatures." Journal of Politics 58: 25-53.
14. Dion, Douglas, and John Huber. 1997. "Sense and Sensibility: The Role of Rules." American Journal of Political Science 41: 945-57.
15. Dworkin, Ronald H. 1977. Taking Rights Seriously. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press.
16. Ely, John Hart. 1980. Democracy and Distrust: A Theory of Judicial Review. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press.
17. Epstein, Lee, and Jack Knight. 1998. The Choices Justices Make. Washington, DC: CQ Press.
18. Epstein, Lee, and Carol Mershon. 1996. "Measuring Political Preferences." American Journal of Political Science 40: 261-94.
19. Epstein, Lee, Jack Knight, and Andrew D. Martin. 2001. "The Supreme Court as a Strategic National Policymaker." Emory Law Journal 50: 583-611.
20. Epstein, Lee, Thomas G. Walker, Jeffrey A. Segal, and Harold J. Spaeth. 2003. The Supreme Court Compendium: Data, Decisions, and Developments. 3d ed. Washington, DC: CQ Press.
21. Eskridge, William N. 1991. "Overriding Supreme Court Statutory Interpretation Decisions." Yale Law Journal 101: 331-455.
22. Ferejohn, John, and Charles Shipan. 1990. "Congressional Influence on Bureaucracy." Journal of Law, Economics, and Organization 6: 1-20.
23. Ferejohn, John, and Barry Weingast. 1992. "A Positive Theory of Statutory Interpretation." International Journal of Law and Economics 12: 263-79.
24. Fisher, Louis, 1993. "The Legislative Veto: Invalidated, It Survives." Law and Contemporary Problems 56: 273-92.
25. Fried, Charles. 2004. Saying What the Law Is: The Constitution in the Supreme Court. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press.
26. Friedman, Barry. 1990. "A Different Dialogue: The Supreme Court, Congress, and Federal Jurisdiction." Northwestern Law Review 85: 1-61.
27. Friedman, Barry. 1998. '"Things Forgotten' in the Debate over Judicial Independence." Georgia State University Law Review 14: 737-64.
28. Friedman, Barry. 2002. "The History of the Countermajoritarian Difficulty, Part II: Reconstruction's Political Court." Georgetown Law Journal 91: 1-65.
29. Friedman, Barry. 2003. "Mediated Popular Constitutionalism." Michigan Law Review 101: 2596-626.
30. Friedman, Barry, and Anna Harvey. 2003. "Electing the Supreme Court." Indiana Law Journal 78: 123-52.
31. Gely, Rafael, and Pablo T. Spiller. 1990, "A Rational Choice Theory of Supreme Court Statutory Decisions with Applications to the State Farm and Grove City Cases." Journal of Law, Economics, and Organization 6: 263-300.
32. Greater New Orleans Broadcasting Association Inc., et al. v. United States et al. 1999. 527 U.S. 173.
33. Greene, William H. 2002. Econometric Analysis, 5th ed. Upper Saddle River, NJ: Prentice-Hall.
34. Hansford, Thomas G., and David F. Damore. 2000. "Congressional Preferences, Perceptions of Threat, and Supreme Court Decision Making." American Politics Quarterly 28: 490-510.
35. Hettinger, Virginia A., and Christopher Zorn. 2005. "Explaining the Incidence and Timing of Congressional Responses to the U.S. Supreme Court." Legislative Studies Quarterly 30: 5-28.
36. Huber, P.J. 1967. "The Behavior of Maximum Likelihood Estimates under Nonstandard Conditions." Proceedings of the Fifth Berkeley Symposium on Mathematical Statistics and Probability I: 221-33.
37. King, Gary, and Langche Zeng. 2001. "Logistic Regression in Rare Events Data." Political Analysis 9: 137-63.
38. King, Gary, Michael Tomz, and Jason Wittenberg. 2000. "Making the Most of Statistical Analyses: Improving Interpretation and Presentation." American Journal of Political Science 44: 341-55.
39. Krehbiel, Keith. 1987. "Why Are Congressional Committees So Powerful?" American Political Science Review 81: 929-35.
40. Krehbiel, Keith. 1993. "Where's the Party?" British Journal of Political Science 23: 235-66.
41. Krehbiel, Keith. 1995. "Cosponsors and Wafflers from A to Z." American Journal of Political Science 39: 906-23.
42. Krehbiel, Keith. 1997. "Restrictive Rules Reconsidered." American Journal of Political Science 41: 919-44.
43. Krehbiel, Keith. 1998. Pivotal Politics: A Theory of U.S. Lawmaking. Chicago, IL: University of Chicago Press.
44. Krehbiel, Keith, and Douglas Rivers. 1988. "The Analysis of Committee Power: An Application to Senate Voting on the Minimum Wage." American Journal of Political Science 32: 1151-74.
45. Landes, William M., and Richard A. Posner. 1976. "The Independent Judiciary in an Interest-Group Perspective." Journal of Law and Economics 18: 875-901.
46. Library of Congress. 2004, Thomas, http://thomas.loc.gov/home/resume. html.
47. Martin, Andrew D. 2001. "Congressional Decision Making and the Separation of Powers." American Political Science Review 95: 361-78.
48. Martin, Andrew D. 2005. "Statutory Battles and Constitutional Wars: Congress and the Supreme Court." In Institutional Games and the U.S. Supreme Court, ed. Jon R. Bond, Roy B. Flemming, and James R. Rogers. Charlottesville: University of Virginia Press.
49. Martin, Andrew D., and Kevin M. Quinn. 2002. "Dynamic Ideal Point Estimation via Markov Chain Monte Carlo for the U.S. Supreme Court, 1953-1999." Political Analysis 10: 134-53.
50. McGuire, Kevin T., Charles E. Smith, Jr., Gregory A. Caldeira, and Georg Vanberg. 2005. "A Spatial Model of Supreme Court Voting." Working Paper, University of North Carolina.
51. McNollgast. 1995. "Politics and Courts: A Positive Theory of Judicial Doctrine and the Rule of Law." Southern California Law Review 68: 1631-83.
52. Meernik, James, and Joseph Ignagni. 1997. "Judicial Review and Coordinate Construction of the Constitution." American Journal of Political Science 41: 447-67.
53. Merrill, Thomas W. 2003. "The Making of the Second Rehnquist Court: A Preliminary Analysis." Saint Louis University Law Journal 47: 569-658.
54. Nagel, Stuart S. 1965. "Court-Curbing Periods in American History," Vanderbilt Law Review 18: 925-44.
55. The Original U.S. Supreme Court Judicial Database, 1953-2005 Terms. 2006. East Lansing, MI: Michigan State University Press.
56. Peretti, Terri Jennings. 1999. In Defense of a Political Court. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press.
57. Poole, Keith T. 1998. "Recovering a Basic Space from a Set of Issue Scales." American Journal of Political Science 42: 954-93.
58. Poole, Keith T. 2003. Common Space Scores Congresses 75-108 (13 July 2003). Houston, TX: University of Houston.
59. Rogers, James R. 2001. "Information and Judicial Review: A Signaling Game of Legislative-Judicial Interaction." American Journal of Political Science 45: 84-99.
60. Rohde, David W. 1991, Parties and Leaders in the Postreform House. Chicago, IL: University of Chicago Press.
61. Rohde, David W., and Harold J. Spaeth. 1976. Supreme Court Decision Making. San Francisco, CA: W.H. Freeman.
62. Rosenberg, Gerald N. 1991. The Hollow Hope: Can Courts Bring About Social Change? Chicago, IL: University of Chicago Press.
63. Rosenberg, Gerald N. 1992. "Judicial Independence and the Reality of Political Power." Review of Politics 54: 369-98.
64. Saenz v. Roe. 1999. 143 L Ed 2d 689.
65. Sala, Brian R., and James F. Spriggs II. 2004. "Designing Tests of the Supreme Court and the Separation of Powers." Political Research Quarterly 57: 197-208.
66. Segal, Jeffrey A. 1997. "Separation of Powers Games in the Positive Theory of Congress and Courts." American Political Science Review 91: 28-44.
67. Segal, Jeffrey A., and Albert D. Cover. 1989. "Ideological Values and the Votes of U.S. Supreme Court Justices." American Political Science Review 83: 557-66.
68. Segal, Jeffrey A., and Harold J. Spaeth. 2002. The Supreme Court and the Attitudinal Model Revisited. New York: Cambridge University Press.
69. Shepsle, Kenneth, and Barry Weingast. 1987. "The Institutional Foundations of Committee Power." American Political Science Review 81: 85-104.
70. Spiller, Pablo T., and Rafael Gely. 1992. "Congressional Control or Judicial Independence: The Determinants of U.S. Supreme Court Labor-Relations Decisions, 1949-1988." RAND Journal of Economics 23: 463-92.
71. Spriggs, James F. II, and Thomas G. Hansford. 2001. "Explaining the Overruling of U.S. Supreme Court Precedent." Journal of Politics 63: 1091-1111.
72. Stone, Geoffrey R., Louis M. Seidman, Cass R. Sunstein, and Mark V. Tushnet. 1991. Constitutional Law. 2d ed. Boston, MA: Little, Brown.
73. Vuong, Q.H. 1989. "Likelihood Ratio Tests for Model Selection and Non-nested Hypotheses." Econometrica 57: 307-33.
74. Waxman, Seth P. 2001. "Defending Congress." North Carolina Law Review 79: 1073-88.
75. Zeppos, Nicholas S. 1993. "Deference to Political Decisionmakers and the Preferred Scope of Judicial Review." Northwestern University Law Review 88: 296-335.
76. Zorn, Christopher. 1998. "An Analytic and Empirical Examination of Zero-Inflated and Hurdle Poisson Specifications." Sociological Methods and Research 26:368-400.