Is Today’s Court the Most Conservative in Sixty Years? Challenges and Opportunities in Measuring Judicial Preferences

Abstract

Court scholars have a voracious appetite for Supreme Court preference measures. Several articles question whether widely used Martin and Quinn (2002, 2011) scores provide valid intertemporal measures, calling into question virtually an entire generation of quantitative research on the Court. This article discusses the challenges of intertemporal preference estimation and revises, updates, and extends Bailey and Maltzman (2011) to present Supreme Court preference estimates that are more defensibly comparable across time and institutions.

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