"" This book offers the first quantitative study of decision-making on the UK Supreme Court.
Covering the court's first ten years, it examines all stages of the court's decision-making …

We examine gender bias in political institutions through a novel lens: oral arguments at the
US Supreme Court. We ask whether female lawyers are afforded less speaking time during …

The news media acts as a “watchdog” over political institutions by holding them accountable
for their actions through critical commentary. Being that the Supreme Court rarely interacts …

We analyze publicly available US Supreme Court documents using automated stance
detection. In the first phase of our work, we investigate the extent to which the Court's public …

Media coverage of Supreme Court decisions is not well-understood, with studies typically
focusing on features of decisions such as issue area and opinion authorship, and ignoring …

Does the Supreme Court care what the public thinks? For decades, published articles have
consistently reported a significant, positive relationship between public opinion and …

Scholars have long questioned whether and how courts influence society. We contribute to
this debate by investigating the ability of judicial decisions to shape issue attention and …

Unable to directly control the policy articulated by the Supreme Court, dissenting justices are
faced with the challenge of finding alternative ways to pursue their policy goals. We argue …

When presidents take positions on pending Supreme Court cases or criticize the Court's
decisions, they are susceptible to being attacked for acting as bullies and violating the norm …

If postmortems of the 2016 US presidential election tell us anything, it's that many voters
discriminate on the basis of race, which raises an important question: in a society that …