Making Law and Courts Research Relevant: The Normative Implications of Empirical Research by Brandon Bartels & Chris W. Bonneau

Author:Brandon Bartels & Chris W. Bonneau [Bartels, Brandon & Bonneau, Chris W.]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Law, Research, Political Science, American Government, Judicial Branch
ISBN: 9781138021907
Google: xyzTnQEACAAJ
Goodreads: 20726270
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2014-09-23T00:00:00+00:00

Notes

We presented an earlier version of this chapter at the Oxford University Conference on “Courts as Representative Institutions,” Wolfson College, Oxford, October 19, 2012.

1 Note that because Rehnquist’s ideology score was calculated separately for his appointment as associate justice (Rehnquist 1) and chief justice (Rehnquist 2), he enters our model twice. This is essential in our next model, where Rehnquist’s two appointing presidents had different ideologies. Here, the split works against our hypothesis as it gives Rehnquist a new baseline as of the 1986 term.

2 Using the mean common space for the Senate instead of the median does not change the results.

3 Some but not all of the drop in the adjusted R squared can be attributed to the decreased explanatory power of the median common space score for the Senate. When the models are rerun with the inclusion of this variable the adjusted R squared drops from .42 to .23.

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