Ideological Dynamics and Hierarchical Responses to Supreme Court Precedents

• In Event: Judicial Decision-making

Brief Overview

We explore aggregate lower court compliance to the Supreme Court in the Roberts era. Our work also sheds light on how the shadow docket is a mechanism to elicit compliance and shape the contours of legal doctrine in an ideologically polarized era.

Authors

• Natalie L Smith, University of Wisconsin-Madison

• Benjamin J Kassow, University of North Dakota

• Ali Shiraz Masood, Oberlin College