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Case Selection and Decisionmaking in the U.S. Supreme Court

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Perry H. W.Jr., Deciding to Decide: Agenda Setting in the United States Supreme Court. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1991. ix + 316 pp. $39.95.

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  02 April 2024

Lawrence Baum
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Law & Society Review , Volume 27 , Issue 2 , 1993 , pp. 443 - 459
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Copyright © 1993 by The Law and Society Association

Footnotes

Carol Mock, Gregory Caldeira, and Joseph Sanders provided very helpful comments on earlier versions of this essay.

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