SupremeCourt              package:Zelig              R Documentation

_U._S. _S_u_p_r_e_m_e _C_o_u_r_t _V_o_t_e _M_a_t_r_i_x

_D_e_s_c_r_i_p_t_i_o_n:

     This dataframe contains a matrix votes cast by U.S. Supreme Court
     justices in all cases in the 2000 term.

_U_s_a_g_e:

     data(SupremeCourt)

_F_o_r_m_a_t:

     The dataframe has contains data for justices Rehnquist, Stevens,
     O'Connor, Scalia, Kennedy, Souter, Thomas, Ginsburg, and Breyer
     for the 2000 term of the U.S. Supreme Court.  It contains data
     from 43 non-unanimous cases. The votes are coded liberal (1) and
     conservative (0) using the protocol of Spaeth (2003).   The unit
     of analysis is the case citation (ANALU=0).  We are concerned with
     formally decided cases issued with written opinions, after full
     oral argument and cases decided by an equally divided vote
     (DECTYPE=1,5,6,7).

_S_o_u_r_c_e:

     Harold J. Spaeth (2005). ``Original United States Supreme Court
     Database:  1953-2004 Terms.'' 
     <URL:http://www.as.uky.edu/polisci/ulmerproject/sctdata.htm>.

