Is Today’s Court the Most Conservative in Sixty Years? Challenges and Opportunities in Measuring Judicial Preferences

摘要: Court scholars have a voracious appetite for Supreme preference measures. Several articles question whether widely used Martin and Quinn (2002, 2011) scores provide valid intertemporal measures, calling into virtually an entire generation of quantitative research on the Court. This article discusses challenges estimation revises, updates, extends Bailey Maltzman (2011) to present estimates that are more defensibly comparable across time institutions.