Judicial policy outcomes depend on how affected parties respond to court rulings.

Evidence

The federal courts’ policymaking on school desegregation and abortion illustrates how political issues come before the federal courts for resolution, how judicial policies change over time, how those persons affected by judicial policies may respond to them, and why judicial policies achieve or fail to achieve their objectives. — G. Alan Tarr, Judicial Process and Judicial…, 3167

Categorization

• DEFINE: States the book’s framework for analyzing judicial policymaking: agenda entry, doctrinal change, response, and policy success or failure.
• XREF: Serves as the connective thesis linking the desegregation and abortion case studies to the course’s focus on legal actors and interpretation. — connects to: Courts depend on political support to have influence — G. Alan Tarr, Judicial Process and Judicial…, 200; Judicial decisions and public policy relate in complex ways — G. Alan Tarr, Judicial Process and Judicial…, 202