score which may be why he achieves more on his ideological goals: his ideology is more
to the right. This qualitative look indicates that perhaps the more extremely ideological
the president is, the better he will achieve his ideological goals.
Table 7
President
ADA
ACU
Issue*
Ford
28.57
87.50
Reagan
2.98
93.60
Bush
0
90.81
Clinton
83.5
7.83
State Claim in
Federalism
38.27
55.10
48.62
40.27
Challenge to
Exercise of
Federal
Jurisdiction
66.92
50.24
54.49
60.22
Statutory Civil
Rights Claim
77.07
34.16
48.46
73.90
Equal
Protection
Claim
42.83
42.13
39.75
46.33
Freedom of
Association,
Expression,
Religion
57.34
51.15
59.82
52.80
Federal
Government
Against Private
Party in
Criminal Case
41.87
73.26
66.88
59.56
State
Government
Against Private
Party in
Criminal Case
21.37
69.87
58.86
35.75
Federal
Government
Against Private
Party in Civil
Case
60.20
57.91
54.38
60.69
State
Government
Against Private
Party in Civil
34.61
55.78
51.54
43.92