Judicial Intervention as Policy: Impacts on Population Distribution and Redistribution in Urban Areas in the United States

Two interrelated issues have increasingly occupied the attention of the courts, as judges, lawyers and expert witnesses wrestle with the issue of school desegregation and mandatory busing. The first of these issues concerns the extent to which there are causal relationships between schools and housi...

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Published in:Population research and policy review 1982-01, Vol.1 (1), p.79-100
Main Author: Clark, W. A. V.
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Boards of education
Busing
BUSING OF SCHOOL CHILDREN
Cities
Court/Courts/Courtly
Desegregation
Desegregation/Desegregated
HOUSING
School busing
School desegregation
School districts
School enrollment
School segregation
School/Schools
SOCIAL PROBLEMS, GENERAL
Social sciences
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Summary:Two interrelated issues have increasingly occupied the attention of the courts, as judges, lawyers and expert witnesses wrestle with the issue of school desegregation and mandatory busing. The first of these issues concerns the extent to which there are causal relationships between schools and housing patterns, while the second issue revolves around the impact of mandatory busing on white flight (either as population relocation or public school abandonment). The courts have chosen to accept the tenuous argument of a causative relationship between schools and housing and to downplay the considerable impacts of their court orders requiring mandatory busing. These court orders have directly influenced population distributions and may affect population redistribution in the future.
ISSN:0167-5923
1573-7829
DOI:10.1007/BF00125394