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Judges are important not only as initiators & proponents of court reform; they are also central to its implementation. It has been proposed that judges assume a role that would also make them important instruments of reform. Recent proposals for greater judicial intervention in pretrial processing of civil cases are examined here; the degree to which these would represent a departure from current practice, & evidence for the effects of the proposed changes are examined. 2 Tables, 21 References. Modified HA.

This article describes an asymptotic method for obtaining estimates of variance and covariance for partial rank order correlation coefficients based on contingency table data The approach used is an extension of the Grizzle, Starmer, and Koch technique for the analy sis of complex contingency tables The variance and co variance estimates may be used to test hypotheses concerning the partial correla tions

Social scientists have available a wide array of techniques for the analysis of complex contingency tables. This paper discusses the factors which should be considered in choosing which of the various techniques to use. The theme emphasized here is that the analyst should evaluate the techniques within the context of the substantive questions he seeks to answer. The specific factors discussed are categorized into three groups: representation of the dependent variable, independent variable models, and estimation procedures.

Beverly Blair Cook ("Public Opinion and Federal Judicial Policy" [abstracted elsewhere in this section]) has presented evidence that federal district judges responded to PO in their sentencing of draft offenders during the Vietnam War. This conclusion is questioned. Reanalysis of Cook's data at both the national level & the district (state) level fails to support her conclusion that judges responded to PO; rather, they appear to have been sensitive to more enduring features of their local political climates. In Judicial Policy: Change Over Time, Beverly Blair Cook (U of Wisconsin, Milwaukee) finds that Kritzer's reanalysis fully supports the existence of a relationship between PO & court output. Kritzer's tacit definition of local PO as differing from national PO is inappropriate. Rejection of the hypothesis that judicial response to PO exists is premature. 3 Tables, 2 Figures, Appendix. Modified HA.

Although much of the data that political scientists deal with are essentially qualitative, traditionally they have been analyzed as though they met the criteria of an interval scale, primarily because the tools available for analysis of interval data have been more powerful than those for use with nonmetric data. With the development of new methods for analyzing nominal level data, several techniques for multivariate contingency table analysis are now available. An introduction to those techniques is provided, focusing on the linear model approach described by James E. Grizzle, C. Frank Starmer, & Gary G. Koch ("Analysis of Categorical Data by Linear Models," Biometrics, 1969, 25, 489-504). 8 Tables, Appendixes. Modified HA.