Norm Violation by the Lower Courts in the Treatment of Supreme Court Precedent: A Research FrameworkFootnote

* An earlier version of this paper was presented al the 1999 meeting of the Midwest Political Science Association, Chicago. The authors thank Harold Spaeth, Steve Wasby, and Lee Epstein for their comments.

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