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How strategic considerations influence justices' willingness to compromise in drafting opinions; analyzes reasons for changes in drafts of the majority opinion during the Burger years; 1969-85.

Examines the impact of judges' policy views, and litigation and political environment on Supreme Court attitudes toward search and seizure; 1962-89; US. Analyzes the Court's political composition, legal constraints, litigant resources, attorney experience, amicus support, and presidential preferences.

Title IX of the omnibus 1972 Education Amendments requires university athletic departments to provide equal participation opportunities to men & women. Here, it is determined how much remains to be done before proportionality is achieved, ie, before the number of female athletes matches the female % of a school's student bodies, as well as how various proposals would affect compliance. Data on the gender composition of 304 Division I athletic programs & student bodies are analyzed to determine what each school needs to accomplish through strategies of adding female athletes, cutting male athletes, or reallocating participation opportunities from women to men. Most schools -- especially those with football teams -- are nowhere near compliance. Compliance is more approachable for schools with a smaller proportion of female students, more financial resources for female athletics, & a smaller athletic program, & without a football team. Compliance is still unlikely or, at best, far in the future for most schools, even if certain National Collegiate Athletic Assoc rules & federal regulations are enacted. The relocation strategy appears to present the most inviting avenue to compliance, although the only scenarios in which most football schools come close to compliance involve exempting football from Title IX coverage or placing a 50-player cap on football rosters, neither of which seems likely in the near future. 2 Tables, 59 References. Adapted from the source document.

We examine the presidential nominees' choice of running mate in each election since 1940, when Franklin Roosevelt established a precedent by naming his own. To analyze the 22 choices made from the pool of 127 serious possibilities, we employ a discrete choice model. We find that the presidential nominee's choice is explained primarily by the size of the prospective vice president's state, by whether the running mate finalist was a rival for the nomination, and by the balance in age for the ticket.

We examine the presidential nominees' choice of running mate in each election since 1940, when Franklin Roosevelt established a precedent by naming his own. To analyze the 22 choices made from the pool of 127 serious possibilities, we employ a discrete choice model. We find that the presidential nominee's choice is explained primarily by the size of the prospective vice president's state, by whether the running mate finalist was a rival for the nomination, and by the balance in age for the ticket. (American Political Science Review / FUB)

Justices are strategic actors. This is particularly evident when they change their votes between the original conference on the merits and the Court's announcement of the final decision. We predict that such voting fluidity may be influenced by strategic policy considerations, justices' uncertainty over issues involved in a case, the chief justice's interest in protecting his prerogatives, and other institutional pressures. To test our hypotheses, we explore the occurrence of fluidity on the Burger Court (1969–85). Using logistic regression, we show that justices' decisions to change their votes stem primarily from strategic policy considerations. In limited instances, the decision to switch can be attributed to either uncertainty or institutional pressures. Our findings suggest that the decision of a justice to join an opinion results from more than his or her initial policy preferences; final votes are influenced as well by the politics of opinion writing.