Collaborative Research: Expansion of the U.S. Supreme CourtData Base

美国最高法院的判决是 社会科学家、记者和 门外汉一样。 从1983年开始，法律和社会科学 方案为多用户数据的建设提供了支持 一个基础，编纂了广泛的层面相关的最高 法院的决策，并使这些数据提供给社会 科学家和其他各方通过大学间联盟 在密歇根州安阿伯的政治和社会研究。 这 赠款将扩大数据库，因此，提高奖学金 在最高法院。 具体来说，这个与Spaeth合作的项目， 原项目的调查员，扬帕尔默将延长 NSF资助的美国最高法院司法数据库（现在涵盖 沃伦、伯格和恩奎斯特时代）， 文森法院的官方投票数据（1946-1953）。 一 第二扩展将与官方投票相关的数据与 帕尔默创建的一个数据库， 会议投票和意见分配。 这个数据库， 包括文森法院，将扩大到包括 沃伦法院。 由此产生的项目将跨越23个任期的 最高法院（1946-1968）和20名大法官的行为， 然后送达。 与原始数据库一样，这些扩展将 将在大学间联盟存档，并将在 作为SPSS导出文件提供。 结果的丰富性 数据将极大地增强理论的形成， 测试关于最高法院的假设。

The decision-making of the United States Supreme Court is of substantial interest to social scientists, journalists, and laypersons alike. Beginning in 1983, the Law and Social Science Program provided support for the construction of a multi-user data base that codifies a wide range of dimensions relevant to Supreme Court decision-making, and makes these data available to social scientists and other parties through the Interuniversity Consortium for Political and Social Research in Ann Arbor, Michigan. This grant will extend the data base and therefore, enhance scholarship on the Supreme Court. Specifically, this collaborative project with Spaeth, the principal investigator of the original project, and Jan Palmer will extend the NSF-funded U.S. Supreme Court Judicial Data Base (now covering the Warren, Burger and Rehnquist years) to encompass comparable data on the official votes of the Vinson Court (1946-1953). A second extension integrates data related to the official votes with a data base created by Palmer that contains the justices' conference voting and opinion assignments. This data base, which encompasses the Vinson Court, will be extended to include the Warren Court. The resulting project will span 23 terms of the Supreme Court (1946-1968) and the behavior of the 20 justices who then served. As with the original data base, these extensions will be archived at the Inter-University Consortium, and will be available as an SPSS export file. The richness of the resulting data will tremendously enhance the formulation of theory and testing of hypotheses with respect to the Supreme Court.