The Construction of a Multi-User Data Base on the Attributes of U.S. Courts of Appeals Judges, 1891-1992

1891-1992 年美国上诉法院法官属性的多用户数据库的构建

• 批准号: 9311999
• 负责人: Gary Zuk
• 金额: $ 9.85万
• 依托单位: Auburn University
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 1993
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 1993-08-01 至 1996-07-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=9311999&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Construction; Multi; User; Data; Base

9311999 BARROW The primary objective of this project is construction of a definitive, multi-user data base on the personal, social, economic, career and political attributes of U.S. Courts of Appeals judges who served from 1891 (the inception of this level of court) through 1992. We know the presidents of different political parties generally have different domestic agendas, that Democratic legislators from the South often vote differently from their counterparts outside that region, and that mass political behavior is related to social and economic characteristics. We are less informed about the extent to which these factors influence the voting (judicial decision) tendencies of appellate judges. Indeed, development of integrated theories about why judges vote as they do has been impeded by the lack of a comprehensive and reliable data base. This type of information has been assembled for Supreme Court Justices, but this is the first project to extend the data collection to the far larger number of federal appellate judges. The project will assemble the requisite data on federal appellate judges and then make them available to the scholarly community in a user-friendly format. The constructed data base will include the following information for each judge: appointing president, predecessor (if there was one), religion, party affiliation, education, date and place of birth, state of residence, age at time of appointment, previous positions held (in temporal sequence), gender, race, ethnicity, A.B.A. rating (since these have been available), and the timing and reason for leaving the bench. A complementary data base on case characteristics and votes is being completed; both data sets will include a unique identification number for each judge, thereby permitting the merger of the two for appropriate research projects. The merged multi-user data base will allow the scholarly community to pursue important lines of research that heretofore were impossible. * **

9311999巴罗这个项目的主要目标是建立一个明确的，多用户的数据库的个人，社会，经济，职业和政治属性的美国上诉法院的法官谁从1891年（这一级法院的成立）通过1992年。 我们知道，不同政党的总统通常有不同的国内议程，来自南方的民主党立法者往往与该地区以外的同行投票不同，群众政治行为与社会和经济特征有关。 我们不太了解这些因素在多大程度上影响上诉法官的投票（司法裁决）倾向。 事实上，由于缺乏全面和可靠的数据库，关于法官为什么这样投票的综合理论的发展一直受到阻碍。 这类信息是为最高法院法官收集的，但这是第一个将数据收集扩展到数量大得多的联邦上诉法官的项目。 该项目将收集有关联邦上诉法官的必要数据，然后以方便用户的格式提供给学术界。 建立的数据库将包括每名法官的以下信息：任命院长、前任（如果有的话）、宗教、党派、教育、出生日期和地点、居住国、任命时的年龄、以前担任的职务（按时间顺序）、性别、种族、族裔、A.B.A.评级（因为这些已经可用），以及离开替补席的时间和原因。 关于案件特点和投票的补充数据库正在完成;这两个数据集将包括每个法官的独特识别号码，从而可以将两者合并用于适当的研究项目。 合并后的多用户数据库将使学术界能够从事迄今为止不可能的重要研究。 * **