Document Type
Honors Project
Abstract
The judicial branch, by exercising judicial review, can replace public policies with ones of their own creation. To test the hypothesis that judicial policymaking is desirable only when courts possess high capacity and necessity, I propose an original model incorporating six variables: generalism, bi-polarity, minimalism, legitimization, structural impediments, and public support. Applying the model to a comparative case study of court-sanctioned affirmative action policies in higher education and K-12 public schools, I find that a lack of structural impediments and bi-polarity limits the desirability of judicial race-based remedies in education. Courts must restrain themselves when engaging in such policymaking.
Recommended Citation
Saul, Dylan Britton, "Courtroom to Classroom: Judicial Policymaking and Affirmative Action" (2015). Political Science Honors Projects. 52.
https://digitalcommons.macalester.edu/poli_honors/52
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