Variable Name | Spaeth Name | Normalizations |
---|---|---|
direction | HARDIR-BRYDIR | 2 [ view ] |
This variable indicates whether the justice cast a liberal or conservative vote. For the definitions of liberal and conservative, see variable decisionDirection. A missing value code indicates that the decisionDirection was unspecifiable or that that justice did not participate.
This variable appears in the Justice Centered Datasets only.
Values:
1 | conservative |
2 | liberal |