seriation (version 1.3.4)

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.

Format

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

References

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

Examples

# NOT RUN {
data("SupremeCourt")

SupremeCourt

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

pimage(d, o)

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