Replication data for: An Appeal to the People: Public Opinion and Congressional Support for the Supreme Court (doi:10.7910/DVN/AR4MFX)

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Replication data for: An Appeal to the People: Public Opinion and Congressional Support for the Supreme Court

doi:10.7910/DVN/AR4MFX

Harvard Dataverse

2010-01-25

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Joseph Daniel Ura; Patrick C. Wohlfarth, 2010, "Replication data for: An Appeal to the People: Public Opinion and Congressional Support for the Supreme Court", https://doi.org/10.7910/DVN/AR4MFX, Harvard Dataverse, V1, UNF:5:Y4AGYrrptfjDp9INXuoovg== [fileUNF]

Replication data for: An Appeal to the People: Public Opinion and Congressional Support for the Supreme Court

doi:10.7910/DVN/AR4MFX

Joseph Daniel Ura (Department of Political Science, Texas A&M University)

Patrick C. Wohlfarth (Department of Political Science, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill)

Harvard Dataverse

2010-01-25

https://doi.org/10.7910/DVN/AR4MFX

Scholars often assert that public support for judicial authority induces Congress to grant resources and discretion to the Supreme Court. However, the theory of competing public agency embraced by the Constitution suggests that public support for courts cannot, by itself, explain congressional support for judicial authority. Instead, the logic of the separation of powers system indicates that legislative support for the institutional capacity of courts will be a function of public confidence in the legislature as well as evaluations of the judiciary. We test this theory, finding that public confidence in both Congress and the Court significantly affect congressional support for the Supreme Court, controlling for the ideological distance between the Court and Congress as well as the Court's workload. The results offer a more refined and complex view of the role of public sentiment in balancing institutional power in American politics.

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Ura, Joseph Daniel and Patrick C. Wohlfarth. ND Forthcoming. An Appeal to the People: Public Opinion and Congressional Support for the Supreme Court. Journal of Politics.

Ura, Joseph Daniel and Patrick C. Wohlfarth. ND Forthcoming. An Appeal to the People: Public Opinion and Congressional Support for the Supreme Court. Journal of Politics.

• Number of cases: 30

• No. of variables per record: 43

• Type of File: text/tab-separated-values

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Data for replication.

• year - Year
• facindex - McGuire's (2004, 2007) SC Institutionalization Index
• factor_money - Augmented SC Institutionalization Index (Including Budget Data) 1973-2002
• conjudge_spline - Mean Annual GSS 'CONJUDGE' Item (Cubic Spline Interpolation for Missing Years)
• conlegis_spline - Mean Annual GSS 'CONLEGIS' Item (Cubic Spline Interpolation for Missing Years)
• confed_spline - Mean Annual GSS 'CONFED' Item (Cubic Spline Interpolation for Missing Years)
• courtcongideo - Absolute Ideological Distance between Congress and the Supreme Court
• courtpresideo - Absolute Ideological Distance between President and the Supreme Court
• alldocket - Annual Number of Cases on the Supreme Court Docket (Includes cert petitions)
• facindex_new - Reestimated McGuire SC Institutionalizationfor 1973-2002
• conjudge - Mean Annual GSS 'CONJUDGE' Item (Linear Interpolation for Missing Years)
• conlegis - Mean Annual GSS 'CONLEGIS' Item (Linear Interpolation for Missing Years)
• confed - Mean Annual GSS 'CONFED' Item (Linear Interpolation for Missing Years)
• courtavg - Average of Mean and Median Bailey (2007) Ideology Score for the SC
• congavg_majmed - Mean House and Senate Chamber Median and Majority Party Median (Bailey 2007)
• president - President's Ideology (Bailey 2007)
• courtminusleg - Confidence in the Judiciary Minus Confidence in Congress (GSS, Linear Int)
• courtminuspres - Confidence in the Judiciary Minus Confidence in the Executive (GSS, Linear Int)
• courtminusleg_spline - Confidence in the Judiciary Minus Confidence in Congress (GSS, CSI)
• dfacindex
• lfacindex
• dfactor_money
• lfactor_money
• dconjudge_spline
• lconjudge_spline
• dconlegis_spline
• lconlegis_spline
• dconfed_spline
• lconfed_spline
• dcourtcongideo
• lcourtcongideo
• dcourtpresideo
• lcourtpresideo
• dalldocket
• lalldocket
• dconjudge
• lconjudge
• dconlegis
• lconlegis
• dconfed
• lconfed
• dcourtminusleg_spline
• lcourtminusleg_spline

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uw jop mri replication (see note 7).zip

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Stata do file and datasets to replicate model estimates using multiple random imputation (MRI) for missing data. See note 7.

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uw jop online appendix.pdf

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Supplementary analysis for Ura and Wohlfarth "An Appeal to the People": Public Opinion and Congressional Support for the Supreme Court (Journal of Politics).

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uw jop replication.do

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This do file will replicate all models reported by Ura and Wohlfarth in "An Appeal to the People": Public Opinion and Congressional Support for the Supreme Court (Journal of Politics) as well as estimates reported in supplementary documentation available at http://dvn.iq.harvard.edu/dvn/dv/jura.

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