TY  - RPRT
        AU  - Mindock, Maxwell R.
AU  - Waddell, Glen R.
        TI  - Vote Influence in Group Decision-Making: The Changing Role of Justices' Peers on the Supreme Court
        PY  - 2019/Apr/
        PB  - Institute of Labor Economics (IZA)
        CY  - Bonn
        T2  - IZA Discussion Paper
        IS  - 12317
        UR  - https://www.iza.org/index.php/publications/dp12317
        AB  - We consider the voting behavior of Supreme Court Justices, finding evidence of co-dependencies in their votes. Coincident with changes in the party imbalance of the Court over time, sharp discontinuities in these dependencies are evident. Overall, the patterns suggest a tradeoff between co-dependencies around political affiliations and individual ideologies, with more-equal party representation on the Court encouraging greater party awareness in Justice voting, and less-equal party representation allowing Justices across party lines but with similar ideologies to inform each other's votes.
        KW  - Supreme Court
KW  - voting
KW  - judicial behavior
KW  - spatial econometrics
        ER  -