Ideological Congruence and Judicial Departures from the U.S. Courts of Appeals

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Brief Overview

This work builds on judicial departure literature by incorporating an updated dataset of U.S. Courts of Appeals judges serving between 1953 to 2020, constructing a novel methodological design, and offering an improved measure of political effects.

Authors

• Richard L Vining, University of Georgia

• Jake Stanton Truscott, University of Georgia