Trial Courts as Organizations
by Project Muse, Ostrom, Brian J.
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by Project Muse, Ostrom, Brian J.
fromBook collections on Project MUSE
"Court administrators and judges have long acknowledged that culture plays an important role in the function of the nation's 16,000 trial courts. Trial Courts as Organizations provides a comprehensive framework for understanding this organizational culture, along with a set of s…
The U.S. Supreme Court is the quintessential example of a court that expanded its agenda into policy areas that were once reserved for legislatures. Yet scholars know very little about what causes attention to various policy areas to ebb and flow on the Supreme Court's agenda. V…