federal district court judge ideology data.  

Using the methodology established in Giles, Hettinger, and Pepper's (2001) work and extended in work by Epstein, Martin, Segal, and Westerland (2007), the list of judges available from the Federal Judicial Center, and the data available on Poole's Voteview website, I have compiled the ideology scores for federal district court judges confirmed from 1945 to early 2006.  All scores requiring President Truman's score were compiled using his Senate score.  

Available here (Stata 10 format; updated 6/15/2010 to reflect 110th Congress Common Space Scores) 

If you use these data, please cite:

Boyd, Christina L. 2010. "Federal District Court Judge Ideology Data." available at: http://cLboyd.net/ideology.html

As well as:

Giles, Michael W., Virginia A. Hettinger and Todd Peppers. 2001. “Picking Federal Judges:
A Note on Policy and Partisan Selection Agendas.” Political Research Quarterly 54(3):623–
641.

Epstein, Lee, Andrew D. Martin, Jeffrey A. Segal and Chad Westerland. 2007. “The Judicial
Common Space.” Journal of Law, Economics & Organization, 23(2):303–325.

Federal Judicial Center. 2007. “Federal Judges Biographical Database.” available at:
http://www.fjc.gov/public/home.nsf/hisj.

Poole, Keith. 2009. “Common Space Scores, Congresses 75-110 (January 6, 2009).” available at:
http://voteview.com/basic.htm.

Poole, Keith T. 1998. “Estimating a Basic Space From a Set of Issue Scales.” American Journal
of Political Science 42:954–993.




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