Policy-Making by the New "Quasi-Judicial" NLRB

Appellate Court Decision Making in NLRB Cases

Abstract: In this article, I review the decisions of the appellate courts in National Labor Relations Board (“NLRB”) cases over a twenty year period, 1994 to 2014, to ascertain what political, economic and legal factors impact judicial decision making. Unlike many other analyses of appellate decision making, this study makes a deliberate effort to take into account legal and procedural differen...

Intelligence Testing and Judicial Policy Making for Special Education

For a generation, at least, Black children have been scandalously overrepresented in public school classes intended for mildly retarded individuals. But identifying exactly what makes this a scandal and whom we should blame is not so obvious. Are we scandalized because the grounds for the disparate assignment of Black and White children to such classes are erroneous or because they are correct?...

The Law and Policy of Judicial Retirement

new approach on foreign policy making

this book makes abundantly clear the sustained freshness of snyder path-breaking and dauntingly original work, which has long set the agenda for the systematic explanation of foreign policy decisions. thevery thoughtful essays prepared for the present volume demonstrate dramatically the continued centrality of the issues snyder and his associates raised more than 40 years ago. prescient in its ...

Health spending by state: new estimates for policy making.

A new data set from the Health Care Financing Administration gives estimates of state spending for hospital care, physician services, and retail purchases of prescription drugs, which together account for 70 percent of health expenditures nationwide. Analysis of these data, which are the first uniform state data to be produced for nearly ten years, shows considerable variation among states and ...