Project for Research in Law and Judicial Politics

The S. Sidney Ulmer Project for Research in Law and Judicial Politics, Sponsored by the University of Kentucky Department of Political Science.

  • The Working Papers Series provides access to the latest law and judicial politics research conducted under the auspices of the S. Sidney Ulmer Project.
  • U.S. Supreme Court Databases – “The distinctive feature of each Supreme Court database is its vote data. This differentiates one dataset from the others. The common feature of all the databases is the inclusion of five sets of variables that bear on the vote and opinion data that the specific dataset contains: indentification, background, chronological, substantive, and outcome.”
  • The U.S. Courts of Appeals Database – “The Appeals Court Database Project was designed to create an extensive dataset to facilitate the empirical analysis of the votes of judges and the decisions of the U.S. Courts of Appeals.”

  • Related resource: Baird, Vanessa A. 2006. Answering the Call of the Court: How Litigants and Justices Set the Supreme Court’s Agenda, University of Virginia Press, forthcoming. (288 pages, PDF)

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