ABSTRACT Since the Founding, Supreme Court Justices have enjoyed life tenure. This
helps insulate the Justices from political pressures, but it also results in unpredictable deaths …

A fixed eighteen-year term for Supreme Court Justices has become a popular proposal with
both academics and the general public as a possible solution to the countermajoritarian …

Can presidents use their appointment power to pull the Supreme Court closer to their own
ideological preferences? Using new and novel tests of existing theories of appointments, we …

How does candidate ideology affect donors' contribution decisions in US House elections?
Studies of donor motivations have struggled with confounding of candidate, donor, and …

This book presents a quantitative history of constitutional law in the United States and brings
together humanistic and social-scientific approaches to studying law. Using theoretical …

Despite the importance of every nomination to the Supreme Court, a unified theory that
illuminates presidential selection of nominees across the modern political era remains …

Measuring ideology on the courts is important, yet challenging. This chapter discusses
various approaches, ranging from calculating percent conservative scores to measures …

Given their long tenure and broad powers, Supreme Court justices are among the most
powerful actors in American politics. In this paper, we present a model of the nomination …

I examine how courts condition the relationship between state-level public opinion and
policy. The system of federalism in the United States allows federal and state courts to …

Objective This study uses counterfactual analysis to assess whether a hypothetical Supreme
Court with Robert Bork as a member would have decided cases differently than the actual …