State supreme courts respond to policy incapacity by setting agendas rather than writing policy.

Evidence

Aware of their limitations as policymakers, most state supreme courts sought to achieve their educational goals through agenda setting. Instead of attempting to devise and impose their own policy, a task for which they were ill suited, they provided only the broadest of guidelines, leaving it to the governor and state legislature to come up with a policy that met constitutional requirements. — G. Alan Tarr, Judicial Process and Judicial…, 3313

Categorization

• DEFINE: Names agenda setting as the standard judicial remedial strategy and defines it as broad guidelines plus legislative follow-through.
• XREF: connects to: Intermediate appellate courts shift state supreme courts toward policy leadership. — G. Alan Tarr, Judicial Process and Judicial…, 343