Know Thy Neighbor: Ideological Distance and Strategic Decision-Making on the U.S. Supreme Court

• In Event: How Polarization, Partisanship, and Ideology Shape the Courts

Brief Overview

In order to better understand the intra-institution influences on justices' vote choices, we explicitly model the spatial interdependence that is assumed to be included in pre-existing measures of judicial ideology.

Authors

• Alison Higgins Merrill, Susquehanna University

• Samantha Zuhlke, University of Iowa