U.S. Supreme Court opinions and their audiences /

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Bibliographic Details
Author / Creator:	Black, Ryan C., 1982- author.
Imprint:	Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2016.
Description:	1 online resource (ix, 185 pages) : digital, PDF file(s).
Language:	English
Subject:	United States. -- Supreme Court. Judicial opinions -- United States -- Language. Judges -- United States -- Public opinion.
Format:	E-Resource Book
URL for this record:	http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/12598466

Hidden Bibliographic Details
Varying Form of Title:	US Supreme Court Opinions & their Audiences
ISBN:	9781316480366 (ebook) 9781107137141 (hardback) 9781316502105 (paperback)
Notes:	Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 05 Feb 2016).
Summary:	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.
Other form:	Print version: 9781107137141

Table of Contents:

Machine generated contents note: 1. Introduction; 2. A theory: using opinion clarity to enhance compliance and manage public support; 3. Estimating the clarity of Supreme Court opinions; 4. Supreme Court opinions and Federal Circuit Courts; 5. Supreme Court opinions and Federal Agency implementors; 6. Supreme Court opinions and the States; 7. Supreme Court opinions and the secondary population; 8. Establishing compliance as a function of clarity; 9. Conclusion.

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