Autor según el artículo: Guimera, Roger; Sales-Pardo, Marta
Departamento: Enginyeria Química
Autor/es de la URV: Guimera Manrique, Roger / Sales Pardo, Marta
Palabras clave: United states Supreme court decisions Social justice Network analysis Models, theoretical Ideological values Humans House-of-representatives Decision making Complex networks Community structure Blockmodels
Resumen: Successful attempts to predict judges' votes shed light into how legal decisions are made and, ultimately, into the behavior and evolution of the judiciary. Here, we investigate to what extent it is possible to make predictions of a justice's vote based on the other justices' votes in the same case. For our predictions, we use models and methods that have been developed to uncover hidden associations between actors in complex social networks. We show that these methods are more accurate at predicting justice's votes than forecasts made by legal experts and by algorithms that take into consideration the content of the cases. We argue that, within our framework, high predictability is a quantitative proxy for stable justice (and case) blocks, which probably reflect stable a priori attitudes toward the law. We find that U. S. Supreme Court justice votes are more predictable than one would expect from an ideal court composed of perfectly independent justices. Deviations from ideal behavior are most apparent in divided 5-4 decisions, where justice blocks seem to be most stable. Moreover, we find evidence that justice predictability decreased during the 50-year period spanning from the Warren Court to the Rehnquist Court, and that aggregate court predictability has been significantly lower during Democratic presidencies. More broadly, our results show that it is possible to use methods developed for the analysis of complex social networks to quantitatively investigate historical questions related to political decision-making.
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Acceso a la licencia de uso: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/es/
Direcció de correo del autor: roger.guimera@urv.cat marta.sales@urv.cat
Identificador del autor: 0000-0002-3597-4310 0000-0002-8140-6525
Fecha de alta del registro: 2024-10-19
Versión del articulo depositado: info:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersion
Enlace a la fuente original: https://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0027188
URL Documento de licencia: https://repositori.urv.cat/ca/proteccio-de-dades/
Referencia al articulo segun fuente origial: Plos One. 6 (11): e27188-
Referencia de l'ítem segons les normes APA: Guimera, Roger; Sales-Pardo, Marta (2011). Justice Blocks and Predictability of US Supreme Court Votes. Plos One, 6(11), e27188-. DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0027188
DOI del artículo: 10.1371/journal.pone.0027188
Entidad: Universitat Rovira i Virgili
Año de publicación de la revista: 2011
Tipo de publicación: Journal Publications