This book focuses on the Reagan administration's broad attempt from
1980 to 1984 to strike thousands of Social Security disability
recipients from government rolls. . . . [Mezey] enriches her study
with a brief history of federal disability policy and provides a
review of contending arguments over public policy and judicial
activism. Of particular interest is the legal battle over the
medical criteria used for determining desability and the SSA's
deliberate policy of nonacquiescence when confronted with adverse
judicial rulings. . . . A well-documented and valuable addition to
case studies on the Reagan administration's efforts to cut human
services. Choice This book is a case study of judicial policy
making. It focuses on the role of adjudication in the making and
refining of federal policy. It goes beyond the scope of most
treatments of social security and the disability policy to examine
the stages of judicial review and subsequent legislative and
bureaucratic responses to adjudication. It then proceeds to analyze
the resulting changes in legislative policies. The study is devoted
to two themes. First, it provides an opportunity for empirical
analysis of the role of the lower federal courts in the policy
making arena; second, it examines the role of litigation as a
political activity. This issue serves as a timely opportunity to
explore the impact of federal courts on bureaucratic and
congressional policies by focusing on the interactions of
institutions involved in the disability policy-making process. By
examining the effects of the courts on social policy, this case
study offers new perspectives on the role of the federal courts in
the political system.
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