Still the Least Dangerous Branch? Lessons from Current Law, Courts & Justice Research

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This page features compilations of links to data collections, authors, and journals for political science research on law. courts, and justice.

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Crime, Law and Social Change: .peer reviewed journal that publishes essays and reviews addressing the political economy of organized crime whether at the transnational, national, regional or local levels anywhere in the world

Criminal Justice Studies: .a quarterly refereed journal, publishes articles that deal with substantive criminal justice and criminological issues

Int'l J. of Law, Crime and Justice: .Refereed journal for high quality research and analysis in the areas of socio-legal studies and the psychology of law, criminology and social justice

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Journal of Judicial Administration: .a leading forum for the discussion of contemporary issues impacting on judicial administration

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Law Courts Justice Data Sites

Calculate Ideal Points of Federal Judges: .This program implements the Giles, Hettinger, Peppers (GHP) method of estimating ideal points of federal judges in common policy space.

Comparative Constitutions Project: .Comprehensive data about the world's constitutions, download data page.

Constitute Project: .Beautiful online environment to read, search, and compare the world's constitutions

Create Cross-Tabulations with US Circuit Court Data: .This resource allows you to analyze some of the variables coded in Phase Three of the U.S. Circuit Courts of Appeals Database (2003-2010).

EEOC Litigation Project: .Data on federal court litigation from 1997 to 2006, inclusive, by the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission.

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Replication Datasets for New Articles

(Non)Renewewable Terms and Judicial Independence in the European Court of Human RightsØyvind Stiansen (2022) JOP, more info.
R files: 2

All the President's Justices? The Impact of Presidential Co-Partisanship on Supreme Court Job ApprovalBrandon L. Bartels, +1 more author (2022) AJPS, more info.
Stata files: 4, datasets: 2, PDF files: 6, text files: 1

Ascriptive Characteristics and Perceptions of Impropriety in the Rule of Law: Race, Gender, and Public Assessments of Whether Judges Can Be ImpartialYoshikuni Ono, +1 more author (2022) AJPS, more info.
Stata files: 1, PDF files: 1, datasets: 6, HTML files: 5, other files: 35, text files: 1

Can International Courts Enhance Domestic Judicial Review? Separation of Powers and the European Court of JusticeJay Krehbiel, +1 more author (2022) JOP, more info.
Stata files: 2, datasets: 2

Generative Dynamics of Supreme Court Citations: Analysis With a New Statistical Network ModelChristian Schmid, +2 more authors (2022) POLAN, more info.
R files: 15, text files: 2, datasets: 10, PDF files: 13, other files: 3

Greater Public Confidence in the United States Supreme Court Predicts More Jurisdiction StrippingJoseph Ura, +1 more author (2022) PSRM, more info.
Stata files: 3, datasets: 9, text files: 1

Hate Speech Prosecution of Politicians and Its Effect on Support for the Legal System and DemocracyRoderik Rekker (2022) BJPS, more info.
text files: 3, datasets: 1

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Authors with Datasets

Bonneau, Chris .University of Pittsburgh, see dataverse page.

Clark, Tom .Emory Univ., see dataverse.

Epstein, Lee .Washington University in St. Louis, see dataverse.

Hall, Matthew .University of Notre Dame, see replication data and large datasets.

Kastellec, John .Princeton Univ., see dataverse.

Martin, Andrew .Washington Univ. in St. Louis

Ura, Joseph .Texas A&M University

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