WORKSHOP: Appellate Court Decisions and Potential Transformations in Public Policy

本次研讨会将有助于分析上诉法院的判决如何促进公共政策的变化。关于这个问题的大多数研究都指出，当法院与其他团体和强大的机构结盟时，法院最有可能改变公共政策。该项目将把多位学者聚集在一起，考虑州一级的变化，并允许评估这种变化如何在一个主要的复杂政策领域与多个组织实施，这些组织将抵制变化。重要的是跟踪组织如何动员变革，以及它们如何响应变革的潜力，以及政治上强大的组织是否以及如何动员实施。此外，它将允许通过法院对政策变化进行评估，并可能在各州之间扩散。该项目将与犯罪学文献以及关于法庭和社会变革的文献联系起来；在州法院，最相关的文献是关于学校财政改革的，这使得该项目在多个子领域可能具有广泛的重要性。该项目将有助于培训法律和社会科学方面的学者。它还将为决策者提供有关法院判决和公共政策的信息。该项目将汇集与公共政策制定者和学者密切相关的学者，因此极有可能实现潜在的更广泛影响。这一政策问题对多个州都极为重要，因此政策影响可能是广泛的。

This workshop will contribute to analysis of how appellate court decisions contribute to changes in public policy. Most research concerning that issue has noted that courts are most likely to change public policy when they have other groups and powerful institutions allied with them. This project will bring multiple scholars together to consider state-level change, and allow an evaluation of how such change is implemented in a major complex policy field with multiple organizations that would resist change. It will be important to track how organizations mobilize for change, and how they respond to its potential, and whether and how politically powerful organizations mobilize for implementation. Furthermore, it will allow evaluation of policy change via the courts and potential diffusion across states. The project will link with literature in criminology as well as literature on courts and social change; in state courts, the most relevant literature has concerned school finance reform, making the project potentially broadly important in multiple subfields.The project will contribute to the training of scholars in law and social sciences. It will also inform policymakers concerning court decisions and public policy. The project will draw together scholars closely connected to public policymakers and scholars, therefore making the realization of potential broader impacts highly likely. The policy issue is extremely important to multiple states, so the policy impact is likely to be broad.