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A Common-Space Scaling of the American Judiciary and Legal Profession

Year: 2017

Type: article

Abstract: We extend the scaling methodology previously used in Bonica (2014) to jointly scale the American federal judiciary and legal profession in a common space with other political actors. The end result is the first dataset of consistently measured ideological scores across all tiers of the federal judiciary and the legal profession, including 840 federal judges and 380,307 attorneys. To illustrate these measures, we present two examples involving the U.S. Supreme Court. These data open up significant areas of scholarly inquiry.

Source: Political Analysis

DOI: 10.1017/pan.2016.10

Authors: Adam Bonica, Maya Sen

Institutions: Stanford University, Harvard University

Language: English

Topic: Judicial and Constitutional Studies

Subfield: Law

Field: Social Sciences

Domain: Social Sciences

SDG: Peace, justice, and strong institutions

Open Access status: bronze

OpenAlex ID: W2294235653