POLS 3302 Lecture 11: Studies of Results- Compliance and Judicial Impact
23 Mar 2020
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Introduction: completing the political systems model, compliance studies, compliance defined: the degree to which individuals, groups or institutions conform behavior to the dictates of a court ruling. |no compliance 0% -------- |some compliance 50%| --------- total compliance 100%: mandatory vs anticipatory compliance: legal decisions are technically binding only on parties to the lawsuit. Courts can enforce their decisions on the parties using the power of contempt. Anticipating that they are now at legal risk, other parties will conform their behavior to the decision even though they weren"t parties of the litigation: ex of compliance. The warren court issued a series of landmark decisions that radically transformed how states were to conduct criminal proceedings. Generals read the new decisions, decided that their states procedures were now at risk, and brought them into compliance (voluntary): ex of noncompliance: worcester v georgia (1832), us sc ruled that state laws limiting.
