"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，以包括与汉堡法院“重新列出”的案件有关的变量。在汉堡法庭期间，任何一位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——以推迟调卷令的裁决。重新排序是法院决策过程中唯一没有被纳入任何国家科学基金会数据库的特征之一。缩小这一差距很重要，不仅是为了完整，而且还因为它将揭示大法官对战略行为的运用。学者们不知道哪位大法官参与了这种实践，产生了什么样的影响，在涉及哪些法律条款和问题的案件中，以及对法院的生产过程造成了什么样的损失。相比之下，学者们确实对其他阶段和方面了解很多，但由于缺乏有关重新排序的系统信息，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，还会影响旨在解释作为决策机构的法院议程设置行为的假设和理论的充分性。这项提议的实施需要系统地检查大法官威廉·布伦南和刘易斯·鲍威尔所有的几千份摘要，这些摘要确定了重新列出案件的情况，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，将被存档在万维网上。

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.