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WEB | Saturday, August 1, 2009
Supreme Court Database Website Announced
We are pleased to announce the release of the new Supreme Court Database website at http://supremecourtdatabase.org. This NSF-funded project is a collaboration among CERL, Northwestern, Michigan State, Stony Brook, Penn, and Princeton.
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WEB | Tuesday, September 4, 2007
Age of the Empirical
... the social world must be broken down into numbers that can be calculated, and to deal with matters of any social complexity, that means a lot of numbers. To draw any conclusions, these numbers must then be sliced and diced to test hypotheses about particular social claims ...

Excerpt from a John O. McGinnis article published in the June/July 2006 edition of Policy Review.
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WEB | Tuesday, January 16, 2007
Martin-Quinn Scores website released
CERL is pleased to announce the release of the Martin-Quinn scores website. This site contains measures, developed by Andrew D. Martin and Kevin M. Quinn (Harvard University, Department of Government), of the relative location of U.S. Supreme Court justices on an ideological continuum. The scores are freely available for download on the site.
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