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McGuire, Kevin. "Mapping the Policies of the U.S. Supreme Court" Paper presented at the annual meeting of the American Political Science Association, Marriott Wardman Park, Omni Shoreham, Washington Hilton, Washington, DC, Sep 01, 2005 <Not Available>. 2011-03-14 <http://www.allacademic.com/meta/p41095_index.html>

McGuire, K. T. , 2005-09-01 "Mapping the Policies of the U.S. Supreme Court" Paper presented at the annual meeting of the American Political Science Association, Marriott Wardman Park, Omni Shoreham, Washington Hilton, Washington, DC Online <APPLICATION/PDF>. 2011-03-14 from http://www.allacademic.com/meta/p41095_index.html

Publication Type: Conference Paper/Unpublished Manuscript Review Method: Peer Reviewed Abstract: Scholars of the U.S. Supreme Court read and analyze the opinions of the justices. Based on those readings, these observers attempt to offer a variety of characterizations regarding the meaning of the Court's policies, the relationship of a ruling to prior opinions, and the general state of the law. To what degree might political methodology offer more systematic leverage on these issues? Employing a recent innovation in content analysis, we examine a sample of the Court's decisions on several different constitutional issues. Specifically, we treat the words within the Court's opinions as data to be quantified, and we attempt to extract their relative policy positions. Our evidence suggests that the ideological placements of those policies can, in some cases, be readily estimated. We speculate about the possible applications and limits of this form of content analysis as it relates to judicial opinions.

Only Words, or Data? Assessing Relative Policy Positions in Supreme Court Briefs and Opinions

Liberal Justices, Conservative Cases? Explaining the Ideological Nature of the Supreme Court's Agenda