The People vs.The Courts: Initiative Elites, Ballot Measures and Judicial Nullification in the American State System

Author: 

Manweller, Mathew

Credentials: 

Ph.D./JD D/Political Science, Central Washington University

This research monograph analyses and describes how initiative elites react to the high level of judicial review of their successfully passed ballot measures and why those reactions are failing to decrease the number of judicial nullifications. For the last 30 years, state ballot measures that have passed and been challenged in court have been nullified at the ration of 1 out of 2. As a result of a 50% rate of nullification initiative elites have benefited from institutional learning and have become more sophisticated and politically savvy. However the nullification have hardly plummeted. The work explains why and posits other legal and political actions that may be possible for the ballot winners and their supporters.

Market: 
Law, Jurisprudence, Initiative and Referendum, Political Science, Theory, Election studies, State politics
Release Date: 
2005
ISBN: 
Cloth: 1-930901-97-6
Price: 
$74.95
Trim Size: 
6 x 9
Pages: 
264
Illustrations: 
Yes - Statistical and informational armature: tables and graphs
Publisher: 

ACADEMICA PRESS
1727 Massachusetts Avenue, NW, Suite 507
Washington, DC 20036