Integrating the Blackmun Papers into the Spaeth Databases

2004年3月4日公布的布莱克门文件涵盖了国际法院1971-1993年的任期，对于编码和输入一套完整和高度可靠的数据极其重要，这些数据涵盖了从汉堡法院第二届任期到伦奎斯特法院第八届任期结束期间的所有初步和优异投票及相关变量，以及扩大和成功完成Spaeth的三年赠款(2004年1月1日至12月1日)。31,2006)在他的NSF资助的数据库中包括对分析、建模和理解法院议程设置过程至关重要的额外数据。该SGER正在为一项提案做准备，该提案将汇编、分析、编码大法官哈里·布莱克门的文件中的相关数据，并将其输入Spaeth的数据库。布莱克门的文件是一个隐秘的领域；我们只知道它们篇幅很大，几乎包括布莱克门作为助理法官的职责所获得的每一份文件。我们不知道它们对我们的目的有多好的组织；它们是否容易获得；以及如何在时间和成本的限制下最好地复制。根据我们过去的经验，从国会图书馆向Spaeth教授复制和提供文件的费用一直是合作提案中的一个主要预算项目。这份SGER将使研究人员能够编制一份预算，密切跟踪复制相关文件的成本。

The Blackmun papers, released on March 4, 2004, span the 1971-1993 terms of the Court and are extremely important to the coding and entering of a complete and highly reliable set of data that encompasses all the preliminary and merit votes and associated variables from the second term of the Burger Court through the end of the eighth term of the Rehnquist Court, and to an expansion and successful completion of Spaeth's three-year grant (Jan 1, 2004-Dec. 31, 2006) to include in his NSF-funded databases additional data that are key to analyzing, modeling, and understanding the Court's agenda-setting process. This SGER is preparatory to a proposal to compile, analyze, code, and enter the relevant data from the papers of Justice Harry Blackmun into Spaeth's databases. The Blackmun papers are a terra incognita; we know only that they are voluminous and include virtually every document that Blackmun acquired in connection with his duties as an associate justice. We do not know how well they are organized for our purposes; if they are readily accessible; and how best to make copies under the constraints of time and cost. On the basis of our past experience, the costs of copying and supplying documents from the Library of Congress to Professor Spaeth have been a major budget item in collaborative proposals. This SGER will enable the researchers to prepare a budget that closely tracks the costs of copying the relevant documents.