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

该项目扩展了美国最高法院司法数据库，包括与伯格法院“重新列名”案件有关的变量。在伯格法院期间，任何法官都可以将案件重新审理--推迟到下一次预定的会议，通常是七天后--以推迟法院的裁决。重新排序是最高法院决策过程中唯一没有被列入任何NSF数据库的功能之一。缩小这一差距很重要，不仅是为了完整性，而且还因为它将揭示大法官对战略行为的运用。学者们不知道哪些大法官从事这种做法，产生了什么效果，在涉及哪些法律的规定和问题的案件中，以及对最高法院的生产过程造成了什么代价。与此相反，学者们对其他阶段和方面的情况了解很多，但由于缺乏与重新列举相关的系统性信息，我们忽略了议程设置的一个方面，这不仅会影响法官个人的行为，还会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。要实施这一建议，就需要系统地审查威廉·布伦南和刘易斯·鲍威尔法官的数千份案卷，这些案卷确定了重新列名的发生，并将相关数据输入伯格法院现有的数据库。这个进一步扩大的伯格法院数据库，像所有其他的，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.