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National Science Foundation Award #0516600

Collaborative Research: An Individual-Level State Supreme Court Database

 
Investigator(s): Paul Brace (PI)
Sponsor: William Marsh Rice University, TX 77005 7133484820
Start Date/Expiration Date 2005-09-15 to 2006-08-31 (amended 2005-09-06)
Awarded Amount to Date: $29,695
Abstract: With the release of the State Supreme Court Data Project (SSDP), much ground has been tilled in the advancement of the study of courts in general, and state courts specifically. Scholars of the judiciary now have a valuable resource with which to test general theories of judicial behavior. However, in its current format, the unit of analysis in the SSDP does not allow us to study the behavior of individual justices on these courts. The PIs will to transform the existing SSDP from a case-level database to an individual-level (justice-level) database. Specifically, the PIs will transform, check, describe, and archive the individual-level state supreme court judge data. Given both the importance of the SSDP as well as its frequency of use, supplementing the SSDP with an individual-level database is something that will be widely utilized by scholars of the judiciary.
NSF Org: SES - Division of Social and Economic Sciences
Award Number: 0516600
Award Instrument: Standard Grant
Program Manager: Isaac Unah
SES Division of Social and Economic Sciences
SBE Directorate for Social, Behavioral & Economic Sciences
NSF Program(s): LAW AND SOCIAL SCIENCES
Field Application(s):
Program Reference Code(s): UNASSIGNED, 0000
Program Element Code(s): 1372