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

该数据库的目的是更新现有的最高法院司法数据库，增加会议投票和从布莱克门大法官的文件中提取的支持性数据，这些文件贯穿了最高法院的前八个任期。 布莱克门的数据开始于伯格法院的第二个任期（1970年），也将作为布伦南、鲍威尔和道格拉斯大法官论文的宝贵补充。 由于布莱克门曾在伯格法院和恩奎斯特法院任职，我们将创建一个新的数据库，涵盖这两个法院，该数据库将基于并模仿现有的美国国家科学基金会赞助的伯格法院数据库的代码和协议。 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，它已经成为几乎所有行为研究的核心-将继续加强理论的形成和假设的检验，不仅对最高法院，而且对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向研究界提供。

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.