Courts, compliance and policy-making

Abstract

Courts are frequently adjudicating questions with important implications for public policy, ranging from the appropriate responses to climate change to balancing individual and minority rights against majoritarian decisions. Yet, courts are inherently weak institutions that rely on other actors to give force to their decisions. Under what conditions can courts influence policy against the will of other political actors? This panel invites papers addressing this question by investigating compliance with specific judgments or by considering judgments’ broader "radiating" effects.

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