Judicial Innovation and Policy Change: The Creation of Veterans Treatment Courts in the U.S.

• In Event: Important But Understudied Topics on Courts

Brief Overview

We examine factors shaping the judicial innovation of veterans treatment courts (VTCs). Through an event-history analysis of the creation of VTCs within U.S. states, we examine the role that the selection process of judges play in shaping innovation.

Authors

• Eric D Button, University of Arkansas

• William Dean Schreckhise, University of Arkansas