Education Finance Reform in the American States: A Discrete-Time Competing Risks Model

Wilhelm, Teena; Cann, Damon M.

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“…The federal government has devolved more responsibility to state governments in recent decades, and citizens have subsequently turned to state courts for policy clarification and policy making. State supreme courts have also overturned public education finance systems in many states, beginning in New Jersey in 1973 (Cann and Wilhelm 2008). The Florida Supreme Court provoked international attention in 2000 when the fate of the U.S. presidential election fell into the hands of its justices ( Gore v. Harris , 772 So.2d 1243).…”

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Measuring Case Salience in State Courts of Last Resort

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Wilhelm

2010

Political Research Quarterly

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Scholars recognize that both citizens and elites may alter their behavior in response to salient stimuli. Epstein and Segal's (2000) measure of salience for the United States Supreme Court provided a valid and reproducible way to assess the political salience of cases. No comparable measure exists for state high courts. The authors introduce a measure of case salience for state supreme courts that is comprehensive and similar to the Epstein-Segal measure. We discuss the utility of this measure, compare it to several alternatives, provide descriptive statistics, and discuss the relationship between case salience and judicial behavior in state supreme courts.

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Measuring Case Salience in State Courts of Last Resort

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Wilhelm

2010

Political Research Quarterly

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Leaders and Followers: Examining State Court–Ordered Education Finance Reform

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Much of the state court literature assumes that decisions reached by state courts of last resort are independent of other state courts of last resort. Each state court has its own ideology as well as a particular set of institutional constraints and confronts different governors, publics, and state legislatures in rendering decisions. Scholarly research and its assumption of the independence of state-level judicial decision making and policy impact stands in marked contrast to much of the literature on the state-level adoption of policy. This diffusion literature has shown that states learn from and emulate similarly situated states that have previously adopted the policy under consideration. These national or state legislatures look to other nations and states for leadership in particular policy domains. In this manuscript, we apply the concept of diffusion to state courts. We do so through the examination of three waves of court-ordered state education finance reform. Using a dyadic data set covering the period from 1974 until 2002, we find that state courts do emulate other state courts but that emulation is different from legislative emulation and different for each wave of reform.We would like to thank the Editor, Nancy Reichman, for her generous time and assistance on this manuscript. The article is much stronger thanks to her help. We would also like to thank the anonymous reviewers for their suggestions.

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Leaders and Followers: Examining State Court Ordered Education Finance Reform

Howard

Roch

2013

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Education Finance Reform in the American States: A Discrete-Time Competing Risks Model

Cited by 3 publications

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Measuring Case Salience in State Courts of Last Resort

Measuring Case Salience in State Courts of Last Resort

Leaders and Followers: Examining State Court–Ordered Education Finance Reform

Leaders and Followers: Examining State Court Ordered Education Finance Reform

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