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In the forthcoming article "Buyer Beware? Presidential Success Through Supreme Court Appointments" which will appear in Political Research Quarterly, we analyze the level of agreement between modern presidents policy preferences with the behavior of their Supreme Court appointees. The measures of presidents' ideology in different policy domains (social and economic policy) and the salience they placed on each domain are based on our 1995 survey of 61 APSA presidential scholars. The Supreme Court Justice ideology measures are based on Harold Spaeth's U.S. Supreme Court Database supplemented with data from 1937-1945 terms.

Presidency Data

Social Liberalism of Modern Presidents
Mean ideology scores for each president in the social policy domain are provided based on the expert ratings along with measures of spread and range of the ratings. Values range from 0 (most conservative) to 100 (most liberal). Presidents are rank ordered by expert ratings.

Economic Liberalism of Modern Presidents
Mean ideology scores for each president in the economic policy domain are provided based on the expert ratings along with measures of spread and range of the ratings. Values range from 0 (most conservative) to 100 (most liberal). Presidents are rank ordered by expert ratings.

Social Salience of Modern Presidents
Mean scores based on the expert ratings of how salient they felt social policy was for each president are provided along with measures of spread and range of the ratings. Values range from 0 (least salient) to 100 (most salient). Presidents are rank ordered by expert ratings.

Economic Salience of Modern Presidents
Mean scores based on the expert ratings of how salient they felt economic policy was for each president are provided along with measures of spread and range of the ratings. Values range from 0 (least salient) to 100 (most salient). Presidents are rank ordered by expert ratings.
 

Supreme Court Data

Ideology of Supreme Court Justices in Civil Liberty and Economic Cases Over Their Entire Careers
This table provides values of the percentage of cases in the two domains that each justice decided in the liberal direction (0 would be all decisions conservative, 100 all liberal).

Disaggregated Ideology of Supreme Court Justices in Civil Liberty Cases
This table breaks down the full career measure of Civil Liberty decision ideology for Supreme Court justices into different periods of their careers on the bench allowing investigation of stability and change in decision-making (0 if all decisions in a period were conservative, 100 all liberal).

Disaggregated Ideology of Supreme Court Justices in Economic Cases
This table breaks down the full career measure of Economic decision ideology for Supreme Court justices into different periods of their careers on the bench allowing investigation of stability and change in decision-making (0 if all decisions in a period were conservative, 100 all liberal).

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Last updated September 22, 2000