Data from Black and Owens (2016)

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.

Format

A data frame with 10171 rows and 10 columns.

presIdeoVote

ideological alignment of judges' votes with the sitting President (outcome)

treatFinal0

treatment indicator for vacancy period

judgeJCS

judge’s Judicial Common Space (JCS)score

presDist

Ideological distribution of the sitting President

panelDistJCS

ideological composition of the panel with whom the judge sat

circmed

median JCS score of the circuit judges

sctmed

JCS score of the median justice on the Supreme Court

coarevtc

indicator for whether the case decision was reversed by the circuit court

casepub

indicator for the publication status of thecourt’s opinion

judge

name of the judge

References

• 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.