Starting from the observation that the European Union now possesses many of the attributes
of modern political systems, Hix and Høyland take an innovative approach to analysing …

Court scholars have a voracious appetite for Supreme Court preference measures. Several
articles question whether widely used Martin and Quinn (, 2011) scores provide valid …

Has the US Supreme Court become more conservative than the public? We introduce
results of three surveys conducted over the course of a decade that ask respondents about …

Since the 1990s, there has been an explosion of empirical and theoretical work dedicated to
advancing strategic accounts of law and legal institutions. Reviewing this extensive literature …

How do Supreme Court justices decide their cases? Do they follow their policy preferences?
Or are they constrained by the law and by other political actors? The Constrained Court …

In recent years, the United States Supreme Court has decided fewer cases than at any other
time in its recent history. Scholars and practitioners alike have criticized the drop in the …

One-dimensional spatial models have come to inform much theorizing and research on the
US Supreme Court. However, we argue that judicial preferences vary considerably across …

Item response theory models for roll‐call voting data provide political scientists with
parsimonious descriptions of political actors' relative preferences. However, models using …

We develop a scaling model to estimate US Supreme Court opinion locations and justice
ideal points along a common spatial dimension using data derived from the citations …

The Supreme Court of Japan is widely and justifiably considered the most conservative
constitutional court in the world. Drawing on interviews conducted in Japan with a variety of …