supreme.sup {dynamac}

Data on US Supreme Court Approval

Description

A dataset from: Durr, Robert H., Andrew D. Martin, and Christina Wolbrecht. 2000. "Ideological divergence and public support for the Supreme Court." American Journal of Policial Science 44(4): 768-776.

Usage

data(supreme.sup)

Format

A data frame with 42 rows and 9 variables:

dcalc

Supreme Court support

l_dcalc

Lagged Supreme Court spport

iddiv

Ideological divergence

mooddev

Mean deviation of Mood

dirdev

Mean deviation of percent liberal decisions

sg

Rulings against Solicitor General's amicus briefs

laws

Laws declared unconstitutional

presapp

Approval of president

congapp

Approval of Congress

Source

doi: 10.2307/2669280