Collaborative Research: Fifty State Supreme Court Data Project

该项目将创建一个50个州的最高法院数据库。这些数据将促进以理论为重点的实证研究，这些研究对比较司法学术的总体进展和州法院研究的具体进展至关重要。这些数据将把州最高法院法官的投票、案件结果和案件特征与法官属性、制度程序和选定的州上下文变量结合起来。到目前为止，司法学者对单个州或50个州的研究进行了高度汇总。其结果是对调查结果的划分以及对司法行为和结果的微观和宏观解释之间的脱节。该项目将提供系统的数据，加快将法律和法官与其制度、政治和社会背景联系起来的理论的发展。这些数据将促进多样化的理论努力和严谨的方法论辩论。数据将存档于国际政策和政策研究中心，并将建立一个网页，以公布这些数据，并便利用户之间交换有用的资料。这个项目将创建一个50个州的最高法院数据库。这些数据将促进以理论为重点的实证研究，这些研究对比较司法学术的总体进展和州法院研究的具体进展至关重要。这些数据将把州最高法院法官的投票、案件结果和案件特征与法官属性、制度程序和选定的州上下文变量结合起来。到目前为止，司法学者对单个州或50个州的研究进行了高度汇总。其结果是对调查结果的划分以及对司法行为和结果的微观和宏观解释之间的脱节。该项目将提供系统的数据，加快将法律和法官与其制度、政治和社会背景联系起来的理论的发展。这些数据将促进多样化的理论努力和严谨的方法论辩论。数据将存档于国际政策和政策研究中心，并将建立一个网页，以公布这些数据并提交***

Hall 9617190 This project will create a 50 state supreme court data base. These data will facilitate theoretically focused empirical studies that are essential to the progress of comparative judicial scholarship generally and state court research specifically. The data will combine state supreme court judge votes, case outcomes and case characte4ristics with judge attributes, institutional procedures and selected state contextual variables. Judicial scholarship heretofore has examined single states or 50 state studies at very high levels of aggregation. The result has been a compartmentalization of findings and a disjunction between micro and macro level explanations of judicial behavior and outcomes. This project will provide the systematic data that will hasten the development of theory that connects the law and judges with their institutional, political, and social contexts. These data will promote diverse theoretical efforts and rigorous methodological debates. Data will be archived at the ICPSR and a web page will be constructed to publicize the data and to facilitate the exchange of useful information among users. %%% This project will create a 50 state supreme court data base. These data will facilitate theoretically focused empirical studies that are essential to the progress of comparative judicial scholarship generally and state court research specifically. The data will combine state supreme court judge votes, case outcomes and case characte4ristics with judge attributes, institutional procedures and selected state contextual variables. Judicial scholarship heretofore has examined single states or 50 state studies at very high levels of aggregation. The result has been a compartmentalization of findings and a disjunction between micro and macro level explanations of judicial behavior and outcomes. This project will provide the systematic data that will hasten the development of theory that connects the law and judges with their institutional, political, and social co ntexts. These data will promote diverse theoretical efforts and rigorous methodological debates. Data will be archived at the ICPSR and a web page will be constructed to publicize the data and to ***