The Effectiveness of Pre-Trial Bargaining in Litigation over Policy Implementation

• In Event: Methods in Judicial Politics

Brief Overview

We use a difference-in-differences design to provide causal evidence that the opportunity costs of pre-trial procedures undermine their efficiency and that structured dialogue improves the efficiency of pre-trial bargaining.

Authors

• Sivaram Cheruvu, Emory University

• Joshua Camden Fjelstul, Washington University in St. Louis