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View article: Partisan Bias in Juror Decision-Making
Partisan Bias in Juror Decision-Making Open
How does partisan identity shape perceptions of guilt? In this paper, we examine whether a hypothetical defendant’s perceived political party identification influences jurors’ beliefs about guilt. Among both Democrats and Republicans, we f…
View article: “Let Me Just Interrupt You”: Estimating Gender Effects in Supreme Court Oral Arguments
“Let Me Just Interrupt You”: Estimating Gender Effects in Supreme Court Oral Arguments Open
Oral argument is the most public and visible part of the U.S. Supreme Court’s decision-making process. Yet what if some advocates are treated differently before the Court solely because of aspects of their identity? In this work, we levera…
View article: Legal entrepreneurship and the evolution of multidimensional advocacy in social movements: the case of marriage equality
Legal entrepreneurship and the evolution of multidimensional advocacy in social movements: the case of marriage equality Open
The emergence and dissemination of new legal ideas can play an important role in sparking change in the way activists in marginalized communities understand their rights and pursue their objectives. How and why do the legal beliefs of such…
View article: The Effect of Judicial Decisions on Issue Salience and Legal Consciousness in Media Serving the LGBTQ+ Community
The Effect of Judicial Decisions on Issue Salience and Legal Consciousness in Media Serving the LGBTQ+ Community Open
Scholars have long questioned whether and how courts influence society. We contribute to this debate by investigating the ability of judicial decisions to shape issue attention and affect toward courts in media serving the LGBTQ+ community…
View article: "Let Me Just Interrupt You": Estimating Gender Effects in Supreme Court Oral Arguments
"Let Me Just Interrupt You": Estimating Gender Effects in Supreme Court Oral Arguments Open
Oral argument is the most public and visible part of the U.S. Supreme Court’s decision-making process. Yet what if some advocates are treated differently be- fore the Court solely because of aspects of their identity? In this work, we leve…
View article: Text as Causal Mediators: Research Design for Causal Estimates of Differential Treatment of Social Groups via Language Aspects
Text as Causal Mediators: Research Design for Causal Estimates of Differential Treatment of Social Groups via Language Aspects Open
Using observed language to understand interpersonal interactions is important in high-stakes decision making. We propose a causal research design for observational (non-experimental) data to estimate the natural direct and indirect effects…
View article: Supreme Court Case Complexity
Supreme Court Case Complexity Open
Latent measure of U.S. Supreme Court case complexity based on information extracted from litigant briefs (1954-2017).
View article: Replication Data for: "Same As It Ever Was? The Impact of Racial Resentment on White Juror Decision-Making"
Replication Data for: "Same As It Ever Was? The Impact of Racial Resentment on White Juror Decision-Making" Open
Replication data and code for "Same As It Ever Was? The Impact of Racial Resentment on White Juror Decision-Making"
View article: Text as Causal Mediators: Research Design for Causal Estimates of Differential Treatment of Social Groups via Language Aspects
Text as Causal Mediators: Research Design for Causal Estimates of Differential Treatment of Social Groups via Language Aspects Open
Using observed language to understand interpersonal interactions is important in high-stakes decision making. We propose a causal research design for observational (non-experimental) data to estimate the natural direct and indirect effects…
View article: Replication Data for: Political Ideology and Issue Importance
Replication Data for: Political Ideology and Issue Importance Open
Past research has shown that issues vary significantly in their salience across citizens, explaining key outcomes in political behavior. Yet it remains unclear how individual-level differences in issue salience affect the measurement of la…
View article: Teacher Perceptions of Their Ability to Improve a High-Poverty Urban School
Teacher Perceptions of Their Ability to Improve a High-Poverty Urban School Open
This study sought to gain insight into teacher perceptions of their ability to\nimprove a high poverty urban school. The school selected for this study came from a\npurposive sampling of urban schools that had exited from improvement requi…
View article: Replication Data for: "Racial Bias in Legal Language"
Replication Data for: "Racial Bias in Legal Language" Open
Replication data for Douglas Rice, Jesse Rhodes, and Tatishe Nteta, "Racial Bias in Legal Language", Research & Politics (forthcoming). The full replication data could not be uploaded to Dataverse given size limitations. It is available at…
View article: Racial bias in legal language
Racial bias in legal language Open
Although racial bias in the law is widely recognized, it remains unclear how these biases are in entrenched in the language of the law, judicial opinions. In this article, we build on recent research introducing an approach to measuring th…
View article: Replication Data for: "Measuring the Issue Content of Supreme Court Opinions"
Replication Data for: "Measuring the Issue Content of Supreme Court Opinions" Open
Data release for "Measuring the Issue Content of Supreme Court Opinions"
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View article: Replication Data for: "Corpus-Based Dictionaries for Sentiment Analysis of Specialized Vocabularies"
Replication Data for: "Corpus-Based Dictionaries for Sentiment Analysis of Specialized Vocabularies" Open
Contemporary dictionary-based approaches to sentiment analysis exhibit serious validity problems when applied to specialized vocabularies, but human-coded dictionaries for such applications are often labor-intensive and inefficient to deve…
View article: Replication Data for: "Issue Divisions in U.S. Supreme Court Decision Making"
Replication Data for: "Issue Divisions in U.S. Supreme Court Decision Making" Open
Data and associated R scripts for the article, "Issue Divisions in U.S. Supreme Court Decision Making."