The Supreme Court's Promotion of Sexual Equality
A Case Study of Institutional Capacity
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 6356387 |
|---|---|
| Authors | F L Morton (corresponding author) |
| Year | 1984 |
| Volume | 16 |
| Issue | 3 |
| Pages | 467-483 |
| Publication date | 1984-03-01 |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Polity (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0032-3497 • E-ISSN: 1744-1684 |
| Publisher | University of Chicago Press (PUBLISHER • US) |
| DOI | 10.2307/3234560 |
| OpenAlex | W2331674836 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 1 |
It is well known that the United States Supreme Court has a policy-making role. But it is not clear that it has the appropriate competence for making policy choices. In the following examination of its sex-discrimination Equal Protection decisions between 1971 and 1981, Professor Morton finds that the Court has tended to abstract the sex-discrimination issue out of its normal legislative context of family support. The Court has allowed a rather narrow concern with individual rights to direct its inquiry and its use of social science data has lacked discrimination
Affirmative action · Competence (human resources · Gay rights · Legislature · Political science · Politics · Promotion (chess · Supreme court · American Constitutional Law and Politics · Gender Politics and Representation · Law · Legal and Constitutional Studies · Psychology · Social Psychology
| Citations per year | 0.03 |
|---|---|
| Citation span | 1993 - 1993 (1) |
| Highly cited | No |