We extend the scaling methodology previously used in Bonica (2014) to jointly scale the American federal judiciary and legal profession in…
What predicts attempts at judicial reform? We develop a broad, generalizable framework that both explains and predicts attempts at judicial…
Ever since the Carter Administration began appointing female and minority judges in large numbers, scholars have sought to measure their…
We present a new measure of judicial ideology based on judicial hiring
behavior. Specifi cally, we utilize the ideology of the law clerks…
An interview with Professor Robert D. Putnam about his new book "Our Kids: The American Dream in Crisis."
From the late 1960s to the mid-1990s, a number of developments turned out to have profound effects on destitute families in the United…