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Getting Attention

The Effect of Legal Mobilization on the U.S. Supreme Court's Attention to Issues

University of Northern Iowa, Cedar Falls

This article asks two questions stemming from a conflict in the literature on the U.S. Supreme Court's attention to issues: (1) Are levels of legal mobilization explained by salient Court decisions? (2) Is the Court's level of attention explained by levels of legal mobilization? To answer them, the author tests hypotheses from the public policy and public law literature on data from seven specific issue areas. The author finds that levels of legal mobilization cannot be explained by past salient decisions of the Court but finds some evidence that changes in the Court's levels of attention are explained by levels of mobilization.

Key Words: U.S. Supreme Court • agenda setting • salient decisions • legal mobilization • interest groups

Political Research Quarterly, Vol. 60, No. 3, 561-572 (2007)
DOI: 10.1177/1065912907304152


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