Spatial models of Supreme Court appointments assume that the president knows the preferences of nominees and is constrained only by the ideology of the Senate. However, nominees vary in the amount of available information that can be used to determine their preferences. I find that justices who offered more information in the form of relevant professional experience at the time of nomination are more congruent with their appointing president. Institutional factors, such as polarization between the Senate and president, exert less influence on congruence. The president is, however, constrained from appointing highly experienced justices if the Senate and president are distant ideologically
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We introduce a new data set recording the vote of every Justice in 18,812 Supreme Court cases decide...
This report discusses the appointment of Supreme Court Justices, including the President's selection...
In recent years, many commentators have called for the depoliticization of the judicial appointmen...
The most important appointments a president makes are those to the Supreme Court of the United State...
This Article offers the first empirical analysis of the Senate’s role in constraining presidents’ ch...
Previous research by Robert Dahl and others has argued that the pre-dominant pattern of Supreme Cour...
Judicial nominations offer presidents one of their most important and enduring sources of influence....
We analyze the Supreme Court nomination process in order to provide a gen-eral explanation of presid...
The Supreme Court nomination and confirmation process has become one of the most contentious aspects...
Presidents play the critical role in determining who will serve as justices on the Supreme Court and...
Despite the importance of every nomination to the Supreme Court, a unified theory that illuminates p...
In light of concerns that politics, philosophy, and ideology now dominate the federal judicial appoi...
Why do some Republican Supreme Court Justices evolve over time, becoming more liberal than they were...
This dissertation examines Senate influence on United States Supreme Court nominations during five e...
In many countries, the president is involved in appointing judges. Does this lead to selection of fr...
We introduce a new data set recording the vote of every Justice in 18,812 Supreme Court cases decide...
This report discusses the appointment of Supreme Court Justices, including the President's selection...
In recent years, many commentators have called for the depoliticization of the judicial appointmen...