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Jurisprudential Regimes and Supreme Court Decisionmaking: The Lemon Regime and Establishment Clause Cases

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  01 January 2024

Herbert M. Kritzer  and
Mark J. Richards
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Abstract

In this research note, we apply the construct of jurisprudential regimes as described in our recent article in American Political Science Review to the area of Establishment Clause jurisprudence. We hypothesize that Lemon v. Kurtzman represented a jurisprudential regime in the Supreme Court's decisionmaking in this area of law. Our analysis shows that the predictors of the Court's decisions in the two periods differed in ways that are very consistent with the types of changes one would expect the hypothesized regime shift to produce.

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Research Note
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Law & Society Review , Volume 37 , Issue 4 , December 2003 , pp. 827 - 840
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© 2003 Law and Society Association.

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Footnotes

Funding for data collection was provided by the University of Wisconsin Graduate School, the University of Wisconsin Department of Political Science, and the University of Wisconsin Law School. Research assistance was provided by Eric Kasper. We would like to thank Joseph Ignagni for making available the data he collected on Establishment Clause and Free Exercise Clause cases. The results reported in this article were presented at the workshop on Sociological Approaches to Constitutional Law, Socio-Legal Construction of Constitutional Systems, International Institute for the Sociology of Law, Oñati, Spain, May 23–24, 2002.

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