Description

This data set provides information on the United States Supreme Court from 1994-1997. Votes included are non-unanimous.

Usage

Format

A list containing the elements:

votes

a matrix of the votes, 0=Nay, 1=Yea, NA=Abstained or missing data. The matrix columns are labeled with vote.names and the rows are labeled with legis.names.

legis.names

a vector of the names of the nine Justices sitting on the court at this time.

party

NULL; exists for consistency with House and Senate data sets.

state

NULL; exists for consistency with House and Senate data sets.

district

NULL; exists for consistency with House data sets.

id

NULL; exists for consistency with House and Senate data sets.

vote.names

a vector of strings numbering the cases simply to distinguish them from one another.

desc

a description of the data set.

Source

Harold J. Spaeth (1999). United States Supreme Court Judicial Database, 1953-1997 Terms. Ninth edition. Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research. Ann Arbor, Michigan. http://www.icpsr.umich.edu/