Data on the contender judges from Black and Owens (2016): Courting the president: how circuit court judges alter their behavior for promotion to the Supreme Court
This dataset includes 10,171 period-judge observations for a total of 68 judges.
The treatment variable of interest is treatFinal0, which indicates whether there was a vacancy in the Supreme Court
The outcome of interest is ideological alignment of judges' votes with the sitting President (presIdeoVote).
The remaining variables are characteristics of the judges and courts, to be used as controls.
A data frame with 10171 rows and 10 columns.
ideological alignment of judges' votes with the sitting President (outcome)
treatment indicator for vacancy period
judge’s Judicial Common Space (JCS)score
Ideological distribution of the sitting President
ideological composition of the panel with whom the judge sat
median JCS score of the circuit judges
JCS score of the median justice on the Supreme Court
indicator for whether the case decision was reversed by the circuit court
indicator for the publication status of thecourt’s opinion
name of the judge
Black, R. C., and Owens, R. J. (2016). Courting the president: how circuit court judges alter their behavior for promotion to the Supreme Court. American Journal of Political Science, 60(1), 30-43.