A Common-Space Measure of State Supreme Court Ideology

Bonica, Adam; Woodruff, Michael J.

doi:10.1093/jleo/ewu016

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“…These scores rely on a combination of elite ideological scores combined with public ideology measures. More recently, Bonica and Sen (2015) and Bonica and Woodruff (2015) have made advancements on these measures using the DIME data that we also rely on here.…”

Section: Methodological Approaches To Ideology In a Legal Contextmentioning

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The Political Ideologies of American Lawyers

Bonica

Chilton

Sen³

2015

Journal of Legal Analysis

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A BS T R AC TThe ideology of American lawyers has been a persistent source of discussion and debate. Two obstacles, however, have prevented this topic from being systematically studied: the sheer number of attorneys in the USA and the need for a methodology that makes comparing the ideology of specific individuals possible. In this article, we present a comprehensive mapping of lawyers' ideologies that has overcome these hurdles. We use a new dataset that links the largest database of political ideology with the largest database of lawyers' identities to complete the most extensive analysis of the political ideology of American lawyers ever conducted.

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Section: Methodological Approaches To Ideology In a Legal Contextmentioning

confidence: 99%

The Political Ideologies of American Lawyers

Bonica

Chilton

Sen³

2015

Journal of Legal Analysis

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“…In relation to systematic state-level contribution data, this project follows Bonica and Woodruff's (2015;Bonica 2014) inventive use of contribution data to explore features of state supreme courts. Through campaign finance records, they developed ideal points for incumbent and challenger candidates, as well as judicial ideal points in the common ideological space.…”

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Individual Contributions to State Supreme Court Campaigns: Context and the Impact of Institutional Design

Boyea

2017

State Politics Policy Q.

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Building upon existing theories of political fundraising and citizen participation in elections, this study examines contributions from individuals as an essential form of political participation in state high court elections from 2000 through 2012. Specifically, I explore the degree to which candidate characteristics, state political environments, and the attributes of state institutions affect the size of individual contributions. The findings of this investigation indicate the participation of contributors in judicial elections closely resembles the activities of voters. Like voters, contributors respond to contextual forces that increase or decrease salience and the political information available to state citizens. Of particular importance are state decisions to use partisan or nonpartisan election designs. Decisions by states to use partisan elections have important consequences for the generosity of contributors with larger donations directed to candidates seeking office in the most professionalized elective state supreme courts.

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“…The first such measure is the ideological distance between the median of the two relevant courts. We utilize Bonica and Woodruff's (2015) measure of state high court ideology to construct this measure. The second such measure is the distance between the citizen ideologies of two states.…”

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The Transmission of Legal Precedent among State Supreme Courts in the Twenty-First Century

Hinkle

Nelson

2016

State Politics Policy Q.

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Theories of legislative policy diffusion are well formed and extensively tested, but scholars know far less about the diffusion of legal policy and reasoning. Three decades ago, Caldeira's "The Transmission of Legal Precedent: A Study of State Supreme Courts" examined this topic, but the intervening decades have been marked by considerable changes in both technology and the institutional structure of state supreme courts. We explore the effect of these changes by explaining modern translegal judicial communication in the United States. Relying on an original dataset encompassing every citation in every legal decision made by all 52 state supreme courts in 2010, we explore the effect of the proximity of two states and the prestige of the cited court on how frequently state high courts use one another's precedents. We find evidence that both proximity and prestige increase cross-state citations.The fact that the American states serve as laboratories of democracy has been long acknowledged by scholars and politicians alike. The presence of 50 distinct state governments with extensive policymaking responsibilities frequently enables one state government to observe the consequences of a particular policy decision before it adopts that policy. With this in mind, the state politics literature has a long tradition of exploring the determinants of state legislatures' decisions to look outside their borders

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A Common-Space Measure of State Supreme Court Ideology

Cited by 59 publications

References 79 publications

The Political Ideologies of American Lawyers

The Political Ideologies of American Lawyers

Individual Contributions to State Supreme Court Campaigns: Context and the Impact of Institutional Design

The Transmission of Legal Precedent among State Supreme Courts in the Twenty-First Century

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