Judicial Policy Making in Complex Systems: Activist Judicial Review as Policy Attention

• In Event: Judicial Independence

Brief Overview

Given judges’ preferences and policy environment stimuli, judges vary their attention with respect to different policy fields. Consequently, judicial activism's intensity would vary due to institutional friction and judges' topics’ attentiveness.

Authors

• Maoz Rosenthal, Interdisciplinary Center (IDC), Herzliya

• Gad Barzilai, University of Haifa

• Assaf Meydani, The Academic College of Tel-Aviv Yafo