Ideological Values and the Votes of U.S. Supreme Court Justices Revisited

Segal, Jeffrey A.; Epstein, Lee; Cameron, Charles M.; Spaeth, Harold J.

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“…Consistent with the attitudinal model's predictions, the more liberal a justice's 22 Unfortunately, Segal, Epstein, Cameron, and Spaeth (1995) do not report the number of editorials from which Justices Ginsburg and Breyer's scores are derived. Accordingly, I use the mean number of editorials for the justices who sat on the same natural Court with Ginsburg and Breyer, excluding Thomas's score, who was an extreme outlier due to the media attention given to his nomination stemming from the Anita Hill scandal.…”

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The Consistency of Judicial Choice

Collins

2008

The Journal of Politics

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Despite the fact that judicial scholars have developed reasonably well-specified models of the voting behavior of U.S. Supreme Court justices, little attention has been paid to influences on the consistency of the choices justices make. Aside from the methodological problems associated with failure to account for heteroskedasticity with regard to the justices' voting behavior, I argue that variance in judicial choice is also of theoretical import. Simply put, by uncovering influences on the stability of judicial choice, a more complete understanding of judicial decision making is provided. I explore this possibility by developing a theoretical framework that uncovers influences on the consistency of judicial choice which are then subjected to empirical validation. I show that the stability of judicial decision making is affected by attitudinal and strategic factors, as well as the Court's informational environment.

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The Consistency of Judicial Choice

Collins

2008

The Journal of Politics

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“…Our estimation of the ideological model of judicial behavior in the Appellate Committee follows a large body of empirical research -mostly centered on the US Supreme Court -aimed at estimating judges' preferences and assessing its role in the judicial decision-making process. One group of papers, beginning with Segal and Cover (1989) and Segal et al (1995), used external sources of information (e.g., newspaper editorials) to construct measures of judges' policy preferences and contrasted them against observed voting patterns. More recently, the literature turned to recover justices' ideology directly from their voting decisions Quinn (2002, 2007)) by estimating the spatial voting model commonly used in the analysis of legislatures (Poole and Rosenthal, 1985;Clinton, Jackman and Rivers, 2004).…”

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More than Politics: Ability and Ideology in the British Appellate Committee

Iaryczower

Katz

2015

J Law Econ Organ

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We argue that a model of judicial behavior that accounts for differences in justices' ability and ideology provides a fruitful alternative for the empirical analysis of judicial decision-making around the world, and illustrate this by focusing on the case of the UK. We show that the model explains the decisions of the Lords of Appeal remarkably well, and improves the fit of a purely ideological model. We use our estimates to tackle previously unaddressed questions about the relative role of justices' preferences and ability in the Appellate Committee.

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“…Die Wertvorstellungen der Richter werden bereits bei der nominierung der Kandidaten und der öffentlichen Anhörung im US-Senat genauestens untersucht. So gibt es in der Forschung zum US-Supreme Court zahlreiche elaborierte Verfahren, um die Einstellungen der Richter zu ermitteln, beispielsweise über die Auswertung von Zeitungskommentaren, Experteneinschätzungen oder dem Verhalten als Richter in vorhergehenden Positionen (brace et al 2000;Segal et al 1995;Segal u. Spaeth 2002).…”

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Das Bundesverfassungsgericht im politischen System der BRD – ein unbekanntes Wesen?

Hönnige

Gschwend

2010

Polit Vierteljahresschr

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Zusammenfassung: dieser beitrag argumentiert, dass die hypothese der zunehmenden Justizialisierung der Politik als dominantes Forschungsparadigma in der literatur zum bundesverfassungsgericht zu kurz greift. Vielmehr befindet sich das Gericht in einem Spannungsfeld mit anderen Akteuren, mit der Regierung, der Opposition, regulären gerichten sowie den bürgern in Form von individuellen Klägern sowie der Öffentlichkeit. Im Folgenden werden institutionelle Verknüpfungen dieser Akteure identifiziert und neue Forschungsfragen aufgeworfen. Abschließend werden die damit verbundenen herausforderungen in theoretischer, methodischer und empirischer hinsicht erörtert.Abstract: This article argues that the Judicialization hypothesis as a dominant research paradigm in the literature on the bundesverfassungsgericht leaves out a number of relevant aspects. Rather, the court should be understood as being embedded in an area of competing interests among government, opposition, courts, litigating citizens and public opinion. The article identifies the institutional links between actors and relevant research questions. Finally, it discusses the theoretical, methodological and empirical challenges for further research on the bundesverfassungsgericht.

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Ideological Values and the Votes of U.S. Supreme Court Justices Revisited

Cited by 154 publications

References 10 publications

The Consistency of Judicial Choice

The Consistency of Judicial Choice

More than Politics: Ability and Ideology in the British Appellate Committee

Das Bundesverfassungsgericht im politischen System der BRD – ein unbekanntes Wesen?

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