Judicial reform succeeds only where the political branches already choose to cooperate.

Evidence

One notable success was in Kentucky, where the governor and state legislature cooperated to produce landmark legislation that overhauled the state’s system of Bs education and imposed the new taxes necessary to support the change.!? But in many other states, the legislative response was slow and begrudging. In retrospect, this was hardly surprising. That state legislatures had not previously initiated reforms on their own testified to the strong inter- ests attached to the existing school finance system. — G. Alan Tarr, Judicial Process and Judicial…, 3322

Categorization

• XREF: Kentucky’s Rose decision and KERA echo the chapter’s contrast between cooperative and begrudging legislative responses.