Chapter 1 Responses to Judicial Policies 1
Studying Responses to Judicial Policies 2
Roe v. Wade: A Case Study of Judicial Impact 4
A Model of the Implementation and Impact of Judicial Policies 14
Summary 25
Chapter 2 The Interpreting Population 29
Why and When Judicial Policies Must Be Interpreted 32
Freedom and constraints in Interpreting Judicial Decisions 33
Interpretive Responses by Judges 38
Factors Affecting Lower Court Interpretations 48
Summary 70
Chapter 3 The Implementing Population 77
The Judiciary and the Implementing Population 78
Implementing Groups as Organizations 81
Program Adjustments after Judicial Decisions 85
Summary 102
Chapter 4 The Consumer Population 107
Characteristics of Consumers and Consumption 108
Responses to Beneficial Decisions 115
Responses to Adverse Decisions 124
Summary 135
Chapter 5 The Secondary Population 139
Public Officials and Judicial Policies 141
Interest Groups and Judicial Decisions 163
Media Coverage of Judicial Decisions 170
Attentive and Mass Publics 176
Summary 180
Chapter 6 Judicial Impact Theory 185
Why Bother with Judicial Impact Theory? 185
Psychological Theories of Judicial Impact 189
Utility Theory: A Psychological-Economic Approach 199
Communications Theory 204
Organizational Theories 210
Environmental Theories 219
Summary 221
Chapter 7 The Impact of Judicial Decisions as Public Policy 229
The Overall Impact of the Courts 230
Judicial Impact in Four Public Policy Areas 246
Summary 268
Case Index 273
Index 279