Updating the Appeals Court Data Base

9602172 Songer上诉法院数据库项目创建了一个广泛的数据集，以便利对法官的投票和美国上诉法院的判决进行实证分析。对法律和社会科学研究人员具有理论意义的广泛变量的数据进行了编码。建立数据库的一个主要目标是提供足够长的时间内的数据，以鼓励对上诉法院进行重要的纵向研究。因此，该数据库被设计为对1925 - 1988年期间的随机病例样本进行编码。最初设想的上诉法院数据库项目已接近完成。本提案旨在为扩大上诉法院数据库提供资金，使其尽可能接近目前的水平。这种扩展将大大提高数据库的效用，供研究司法的人进行研究和教学。% % % %

9602172 Songer The Appeals Court Data Base Project created an extensive data set to facilitate the empirical analysis of the votes of the judges and the decisions of the United States Courts of Appeals. Data on a broad range of variables of theoretical significance to law and social science researchers were coded. A major goal in the construction of the data base was to provide data over a sufficiently long period of time to encourage significant longitudinal studies of the Courts of Appeals. Thus, the data base was designed to code a random sample of cases for the period 1925 - 1988. The Appeals Court Data Base Project, as originally conceived, is nearing completion. The present proposal seeks to fund extension of the appeals court data base to bring it as close to the present as possible. Such an extension would greatly enhance the utility of the data base for research and teaching by those who study the judiciary. %%%%