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An exploration of the institutional judicial activism of the US Supreme Court through the dramatic changes in its agenda, as it has evolved from 1933 to the present. Once dominated by economic issues, the agenda is now populated largely by cases involving individual rights and liberties.

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Pacelle (University of Missouri, St. Louis) says nothing new when he notes that the agenda of the US Supreme Court has changed over the past 50 years from domination by economic issues to domination by civil liberties issues. What makes this work of great interest to court scholars is the consummate way he maps, explores, and analyzes the Court's agenda transformation, 1933-88. In addition to his extensive quantitative analysis of that agenda change, he also identifies important qualitative factors that influence those "empirical patterns of agenda change." He begins the work with a theoretical framework for agenda building and change and moves on to a painstaking examination of the economics-dominated agenda's transformation to a transitional and, ultimately, civil liberties-dominated agenda. His attempts to explain the nature and causes of that metamorphosis are both efficacious and satisfying. A final chapter attempts to predict the future of the Court's agenda under the stewardship of Chief Justice Rehnquist by examining the prospects for, implications of, and the constraints upon, any further agenda transformation. Extensive endnotes and bibliography as well as four appendixes are especially helpful. Of interest to scholars and students of agenda change in the Supreme Court. Upper-division undergraduate and graduate students.-M. W. Bowers, University of Nevada, Las Vegas