Replication data for: How to place non-majoritarian institutions and political actors in a common policy space: Spatial modeling of court-executive interactions
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| Title: | Replication data for: How to place non-majoritarian institutions and political actors in a common policy space: Spatial modeling of court-executive interactions |
| Date: | 20 May 2024 |
| Creator: |
Engst, Benjamin ; Grundmanns, David M.  ORCID: 0000-0003-4844-2994 ; Gschwend, Thomas ORCID: 0000-0002-8656-9622
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| Divisions: | Außerfakultäre Einrichtungen > SFB 884 Außerfakultäre Einrichtungen > Graduate School of Economic and Social Sciences- CDSS (Social Sciences) Außerfakultäre Einrichtungen > MZES School of Social Sciences > Politische Wissenschaft, Quantitative Sozialwissenschaftliche Methoden (Gschwend 2007-) |
| DDC Classification: |
310 Statistics 320 Political science 340 Law |
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| Abstract: | How can we estimate positions of non-majoritarian institutions in a common policy space? To answer this question, we take highest courts as examples of powerful non-majoritarian institutions and develop a new scaling approach to estimate their position in a common policy space with other political actors. In contrast to previous research, our approach neither relies on individual votes of justices nor assumes that justices ``inherit'' positions from political actors who nominated them. Instead, for each court decision, we use the positions of political actors expressed in written statements as well as the courts' decision outcome to estimate comparable policy positions. In two applications, we position the German Federal Constitutional Court with different German governments and the European Court of Justice with different European governments in common policy spaces and validate them. Finally, we show how our common policy scores can be used to study court--executive relations and inter-institutional interactions. (2024-01-24) (English) |
| External Identifier for Data: | https://doi.org/10.7910/DVN/SOEWUZ |
| URL: | https://madata.bib.uni-mannheim.de/793/ |
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| Access (Controlled): | Only Metadata |
| License (Controlled): | Creative Commons: CC0 | Universal 1.0 (recommended) |
| Related Publication(s) in MADOC: | Engst, Benjamin G. und Grundmanns, David M. und Gschwend, Thomas (2025), How to place non-majoritarian institutions and political actors in a common policy space: Spatial modeling of court–executive interactions |
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| Notes: | The "README.pdf" summarizes information on all pipelines necessary to replicate the findings from the article. For a full replication, run each step mentioned in the README sequentially. To do so, open the project file ".Rproj" in the respective repository. Then, run the "*_master.R" script located in the respective repository’s root folder. There are three repositories: "idealpoint-estimation," "analysis," and "ecj." The "CODEBOOK.pdf" summarizes information on all key variables used throughout the replication process. |
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| Date Deposited: | 24 Apr 2026 09:22 |
| Last Modified: | 24 Apr 2026 09:22 |
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