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SupremeCourt

Voting Patterns in the Second Rehnquist U.S. Supreme Court

Description

Contains a (a subset of the) decisions for the stable 8-yr period 1995-2002 of the second Rehnquist Supreme Court. Decisions are aggregated to the joint probability for disagreement between judges.

Usage

data("SupremeCourt")

Format

A square, symmetric 9-by-9 matrix with the joint probability for disagreement.

Author(s)

Michael Hahsler

References

Sirovich, L. (2003). A pattern analysis of the second Rehnquist U.S. Supreme Court. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, 100, 7432-7437. doi:10.1073/pnas.1132164100.

Examples

data("SupremeCourt")

SupremeCourt

d <- as.dist(SupremeCourt)
o <- seriate(d)

pimage(d, o)

plot(hclust(as.dist(SupremeCourt)))

seriation

Infrastructure for Ordering Objects Using Seriation

v1.2-9

GPL-3

Authors

Michael Hahsler [aut, cre, cph], Christian Buchta [aut, cph], Kurt Hornik [aut, cph], Fionn Murtagh [ctb, cph], Michael Brusco [ctb, cph], Stephanie Stahl [ctb, cph], Hans-Friedrich Koehn [ctb, cph]

Initial release

2020-09-29