"Relisting" on the Burger Court, 1971-1985 Terms

该项目扩展了扩展的美国最高法院司法数据库，包括与汉堡法院“重新审理”的案件有关的变量。在汉堡法院期间，任何法官都可以重新审理案件--推迟到下一次预定的会议，通常是七天后--以推迟移送裁决。重新编排是法院决策过程中仅有的未列入任何国家科学基金数据库的特点之一。弥合这一差距很重要，不仅是为了完整性，也是因为它将揭示大法官们使用战略行为的情况。学者们不知道哪些大法官参与了这一做法，产生了什么效果，在涉及哪些法律条款和问题的案件中，以及最高法院的生产过程付出了什么代价。相比之下，学者们确实对其他阶段和方面了解很多，但由于缺乏关于重排的相关和系统的信息，我们忽略了对议程设置的一个方面的考虑，该方面很可能不仅影响个别大法官的行为，而且还影响旨在解释最高法院作为决策机构的议程设置行为的假设和理论的充分性。执行这项提议需要系统地审查威廉·布伦南大法官和刘易斯·鲍威尔大法官的所有数千份案卷，这些案卷查明了重审的发生情况，并将相关数据输入现有的汉堡法院数据库。这个进一步扩展的汉堡法院数据库，像所有其他数据库一样，将在万维网上存档。

This project extends the Expanded U.S. Supreme Court Judicial Database to include variables pertaining to the "relisted" cases of the Burger Court. During the Burger Court, any justice could have a case relisted - held over until the next scheduled conference, typically seven days later - to delay the certiorari decision. Relisting is one of the only features of the Court's decision-making process not included in any of the NSF databases. Closing this gap is important, not only for the sake of completeness, but also because it will shed light on the justices' employment of strategic behavior. Scholars do not know which of the justices engage in the practice, with what effect, in cases concerning what legal provisions and issues, and at what cost to the Court's productive process. In contrast, scholars do know a great deal about other stages and aspects, but without relevant and systematic information about relisting, we omit consideration of an aspect of agenda setting that may well affect not only the behavior of individual justices, but also the adequacy of hypotheses and theories aimed at explaining the agenda setting behavior of the Court as a policy-making institution. Implementation of this proposal requires systematic examination of all of the several thousand docket sheets of Justices William Brennan and Lewis Powell that identify the occurrence of relisting and the entry of the pertinent data into the existing Burger Court database. This further expanded Burger Court database, like all of the others, will be archived on the World Wide Web.