Uncovering Vote Trading in the US Supreme Court

• In Event: Methods in Judicial Politics

Brief Overview

We apply a novel methodology for the empirical study of vote trading that builds on the concept of reciprocity in directed weighted networks and find substantive evidence of vote trading in the US Supreme Court.

Authors

• Raluca F Popp, University of Exeter

• Omar A Guerrero, The Alan Turing Institute

• Ulrich Matter, St Gallen University

• Dong Nguyen, The Alan Turing Institute