Replication Data for: "Experience Counts: The Chief Justice, Management Tenure, and Strategic Behavior on the U.S. Supreme Court" (doi:10.7910/DVN/BSSEDQ)

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Document Description

Citation

Title:

Replication Data for: "Experience Counts: The Chief Justice, Management Tenure, and Strategic Behavior on the U.S. Supreme Court"

Identification Number:

doi:10.7910/DVN/BSSEDQ

Distributor:

Harvard Dataverse

Date of Distribution:

2016-03-18

Version:

1

Bibliographic Citation:

Ura, Joseph Daniel; Flink, Carla M., 2016, "Replication Data for: "Experience Counts: The Chief Justice, Management Tenure, and Strategic Behavior on the U.S. Supreme Court"", https://doi.org/10.7910/DVN/BSSEDQ, Harvard Dataverse, V1, UNF:6:Z3YH3frlSBxn5c9HMAy+sw== [fileUNF]

Study Description

Citation

Title:

Replication Data for: "Experience Counts: The Chief Justice, Management Tenure, and Strategic Behavior on the U.S. Supreme Court"

Identification Number:

doi:10.7910/DVN/BSSEDQ

Authoring Entity:

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

Flink, Carla M. (Department of Public Administration, University of Texas at San Antonio)

Distributor:

Harvard Dataverse

Access Authority:

Ura, Joseph

Depositor:

Ura, Joseph

Date of Deposit:

2016-03-17

Holdings Information:

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

Study Scope

Keywords:

Law, Social Sciences

Abstract:

Data and Stata code for replicating reported analysis. Abstract We develop and test a theoretical account of the effect of management tenure on the strategic behavior of the Chief Justice of the United States. Substantial evidence from a variety of learning models and the public management literature indicates that tenure (length of service) is positively related to management performance in public organizations. This suggests that the chief justice’s tenure in office should be positively related to efficiency in the use of the chief justice’s formal powers. We assess this hypothesis by replicating and extending Johnson, Spriggs, and Wahlbeck’s (2005) study of Chief Justice Burger’s conference voting behavior. The data support our management tenure hypothesis, showing that Burger used greater discretion in reserving his conference vote over time as he became more adept at discriminating between circumstances when the tactic was strategically valuable and when it was not.

Methodology and Processing

Sources Statement

Data Access

Notes:

<a href="http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0">CC0 1.0</a>

Other Study Description Materials

File Description--f2793100

File: ura and flink (2016) RAP replication data.tab

  • Number of cases: 8247

  • No. of variables per record: 23

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

Notes:

UNF:6:Z3YH3frlSBxn5c9HMAy+sw==

Data for replication.

Variable Description

List of Variables:

Variables

supreme court term

f2793100 Location:

Summary Statistics: Valid 8247.0; Min. 71.0; Mean 78.66205893052009; StDev 4.378623661159157; Max. 85.0;

Variable Format: numeric

Notes: UNF:6:q/beuHJsG91RjOKBHOQrNA==

justice code

f2793100 Location:

Summary Statistics: Mean 5.097368740147966; Min. 1.0; StDev 3.1111437975509153; Max. 11.0; Valid 8247.0

Variable Format: numeric

Notes: UNF:6:qcuVfxSqWJAZTM4M0gTvMg==

=1 if (justname~='cj' & (term>=69 & term<=85)) | (justname~='wr' & term==86)

f2793100 Location:

Summary Statistics: Valid 8247.0; Max. 1.0; StDev 0.3314423220870559; Min. 0.0; Mean 0.8743785619012974

Variable Format: numeric

Notes: UNF:6:d8Tw58fwAAN1bQnPYAR8dQ==

=1 if numgrant<=4

f2793100 Location:

Summary Statistics: Max. 1.0; Min. 0.0; Valid 8247.0; StDev 0.4483604889715696; Mean 0.2786467806475093

Variable Format: numeric

Notes: UNF:6:qBp2POGK7FPv8gLrCaHz1Q==

case complexity

f2793100 Location:

Summary Statistics: StDev 0.892598175325288; Max. 6.433475494384766; Min. -0.7484115958213806; Valid 8247.0; Mean 0.1592748499171312

Variable Format: numeric

Notes: UNF:6:XAolkwV8uepzcf/XOL0/5Q==

=rmean(nobsval1 nobsval2)

f2793100 Location:

Summary Statistics: Min. 6.222221851348877; StDev 130.33294010025804; Valid 8247.0; Max. 489.44439697265625; Mean 256.25550995887784;

Variable Format: numeric

Notes: UNF:6:yiJI/ZWeN+xmvpRFgOGCUg==

=namici-termmean/termstd

f2793100 Location:

Summary Statistics: Min. -0.882112979888916; Max. 52.54619216918945; StDev 3.614649871296605; Mean 1.7484086445593963; Valid 8247.0;

Variable Format: numeric

Notes: UNF:6:n8Jw7/YsaTy4GRXiyBLSBA==

=1 if voteone==3 | vote2==3

f2793100 Location:

Summary Statistics: Valid 8247.0; StDev 0.15863026615378092; Mean 0.02582757366315014; Max. 1.0; Min. 0.0

Variable Format: numeric

Notes: UNF:6:sMVJI6KYRWPxVDl391X56A==

abs(ideology-medideo)

f2793100 Location:

Summary Statistics: Mean 0.11519509036291921; Valid 8242.0; StDev 0.10151761581153446; Min. 0.0; Max. 0.692307710647583

Variable Format: numeric

Notes: UNF:6:o9JhYJT1lWQP8RRH6y/+IA==

=ideocourt*notcj

f2793100 Location:

Summary Statistics: Min. 0.0; Mean 0.09976938909457057; StDev 0.10649273374447132; Valid 8242.0; Max. 0.692307710647583

Variable Format: numeric

Notes: UNF:6:XD4zeqeQ5U11s2YTCoPsyA==

mwcgrant*notcj

f2793100 Location:

Summary Statistics: Min. 0.0; Valid 8247.0; Max. 1.0; Mean 0.24336122226264112; StDev 0.4291373534996486;

Variable Format: numeric

Notes: UNF:6:ALyM71v2BaKLGZsNrldrRQ==

amiciz*notcj

f2793100 Location:

Summary Statistics: Mean 1.5288852300398865; StDev 3.428344546092961; Valid 8247.0; Min. -0.882112979888916; Max. 52.54619216918945

Variable Format: numeric

Notes: UNF:6:UP5iAHSmZCQS3XUyPhyTQA==

nobsvalue*notcj

f2793100 Location:

Summary Statistics: Valid 8247.0; StDev 148.54586640050726; Max. 489.44439697265625; Mean 224.09189539729837; Min. 0.0

Variable Format: numeric

Notes: UNF:6:dhF3XHEGsvBIa/TYYAloUA==

=ideocourt^2

f2793100 Location:

Summary Statistics: StDev 0.039850431183330065; Mean 0.023574484838702926; Min. 0.0; Valid 8242.0; Max. 0.4792899787425995

Variable Format: numeric

Notes: UNF:6:HVC3PL8MA8FipQPmYOGgBA==

=ideocourtsq*notcj

f2793100 Location:

Summary Statistics: StDev 0.040275962267919026; Max. 0.4792899787425995; Mean 0.021293257453866805; Min. 0.0; Valid 8242.0

Variable Format: numeric

Notes: UNF:6:28Rv8mGu2OcPToeGOgA31w==

first two years of service =1 (oath of office to oral date

f2793100 Location:

Summary Statistics: Max. 1.0; Valid 8247.0; Mean 0.056384139687155124; StDev 0.23067600805966906; Min. 0.0

Variable Format: numeric

Notes: UNF:6:lJxp8K+bSXSH5UnX7zWxxg==

count

f2793100 Location:

Summary Statistics: Max. 15.0; Min. 1.0; StDev 4.378623661159175; Valid 8247.0; Mean 8.662058930520093

Variable Format: numeric

Notes: UNF:6:6gXmooiDS+7BQFcAhpKT1A==

countnotcj

f2793100 Location:

Summary Statistics: StDev 5.000808866159693; Min. 0.0; Max. 15.0; Valid 8247.0; Mean 7.573905662665686

Variable Format: numeric

Notes: UNF:6:JoS93+trIwGKrppRncj1AQ==

countideocourt

f2793100 Location:

Summary Statistics: Valid 8242.0; StDev 1.1232452652791762; Min. 0.0; Max. 7.859532356262207; Mean 0.9624757851046217;

Variable Format: numeric

Notes: UNF:6:VAKv+P2yhpymTXsq4fEHHQ==

countideocourtsq

f2793100 Location:

Summary Statistics: Mean 0.20063302246410722; Max. 4.118149757385254; Valid 8242.0; Min. 0.0; StDev 0.45849828725215663;

Variable Format: numeric

Notes: UNF:6:0nZ+1fHUbxWmBy+Na54x1Q==

countnobsvalue

f2793100 Location:

Summary Statistics: Mean 2509.7590027195915; StDev 2137.862425046619; Max. 7341.666015625; Min. 17.555559158325195; Valid 8247.0

Variable Format: numeric

Notes: UNF:6:uQILO3AA7o+Dill1BZPiyg==

countmwcgrant

f2793100 Location:

Summary Statistics: Max. 15.0; StDev 4.602876153327296; Valid 8247.0; Mean 2.477628228446853; Min. 0.0

Variable Format: numeric

Notes: UNF:6:bhUivd0VuBMURPH4LXJ2cQ==

countamiciz

f2793100 Location:

Summary Statistics: Max. 423.3746032714844; Valid 8247.0; Mean 17.649132788683854; Min. -12.015040397644043; StDev 39.368271035716454

Variable Format: numeric

Notes: UNF:6:X4MieNRqsVRnP0ncqTJXgA==

Other Study-Related Materials

Label:

ura and flink (2016) RAP replication code.do

Text:

Stata code for replication.

Notes:

application/x-stata-syntax