Collaborative Research: The Addition of the Blackmun Papers to the U.S. Supreme Court Databases

合作研究：将布莱克门文件添加到美国最高法院数据库

• 批准号: 0450999
• 负责人: Harold Spaeth
• 金额: $ 12.69万
• 依托单位: Michigan State University
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2005
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2005-03-01 至 2008-02-29
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=0450999&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Collaborative; Research; Addition; Blackmun; Papers

The purpose of this database is to update the existing Supreme Court Judicial Database by the addition of conference vote and supportive data drawn from the papers of Justice Blackmun that extend through the first eight terms of the Rehnquist Court. Blackmun's data, which begin with the second term of the Burger Court (1970), will also serve as a valuable supplement to the papers of Justices Brennan, Powell, and Douglas. Because Blackmun served on both the Burger and Rehnquist Courts, we will create a new database encompassing both Courts that will be based on and patterned after the codes and protocols of the existing NSF-sponsored Burger Court database. Those data will contain the identification, background, chronological, substantive, outcome, and voting and opinion variables of the current version. The richness of the resulting data -- which has already become the cynosure for virtually all behavioral research, in addition to that of legalistically analytical and descriptive work -- will continue to enhance the formulation of theory and the testing of hypotheses, not only with respect to the Supreme Court, but to other groups of decision makers as well. In addition, the data and other materials will be made available to the research community via the worldwide web.

该数据库的目的是通过添加会议投票和从布莱克门大法官的文件中提取的支持数据来更新现有的最高法院司法数据库，这些数据贯穿伦奎斯特法院的前八个任期。 布莱克门的数据始于伯格法院第二任期（1970 年），也将作为布伦南、鲍威尔和道格拉斯法官文件的宝贵补充。 由于 Blackmun 曾在 Burger 法院和 Rehnquist 法院任职，因此我们将创建一个包含两个法院的新数据库，该数据库将基于现有 NSF 资助的 Burger Court 数据库的代码和协议并以此为基础。 这些数据将包含当前版本的身份、背景、时间顺序、实质性、结果以及投票和意见变量。 由此产生的数据的丰富性——除了法律分析和描述性工作之外，已经成为几乎所有行为研究的焦点——将继续加强理论的制定和假设的检验，不仅对于最高法院，而且对于其他决策者群体也是如此。 此外，数据和其他材料将通过万维网提供给研究界。