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Direction of the Individual Justice’s Votes

Direction of the Individual Justice’s Votes
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:

1conservative
2liberal