How does the strategic model of judicial decision making differ from the other two?
What will be an ideal response?
An ideal response will:
1, Describe generally each of the three models of judicial decision making—attitudinal, strategic, and legal.
2, Explain that only the strategic model suggests that judges are concerned with how the other branches of government will react to their decisions.
3, Indicate that under the strategic model, judges see themselves as strategic actors in a larger political environment, which may require them to subsume individual policy preferences (attitudinal model) or the plain legal answer (legal model).
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a. have made so much money researching and producing drugs for the very ill. b. have waited much too long to release drugs that would benefit people who have no other effective drugs. c. have hired medical personnel to supervise drug research after those people had been accused of serious ethical violations in research and treating patients. d. regularly fail to receive informed consent by the patients they study.
Since the mid-1970s, total revenues (national plus state plus local) have declined while costs have increased, leading to increased competition among governments, deficit spending, and “cutback management.”
Indicate whether the statement is true or false.