A Bridge Too Far? - Estimating Supreme Court Ideal Points through Crowdsourcing Difficulty Parameters 1895-2017

• In Event: JSS 6
  In JSS Session: JSS: Courts in Separation of Powers Systems

Brief Overview

Paper applying a novel method of ideal point estimation that leverages comparability of expert opinion across time since expert opinion is taken at one specific point in time and can be applied backwards, guaranteeing intertemporal comparability.

Author

• Sebastian M Saling, Princeton University