CCES 2016, Team Module of Arizona State University (ASU)

This dataverse contains the data and supporting documents for the CCES 2016 Arizona State University. This project was supported by the National Science Foundation, Grant Number SES-1559125

Just the Facts? Media Coverage of Female and Male High Court Appointees in Five Democracies

In this article, we examine gender differences in news media portrayals of nominees to high courts and whether those differences vary across country and time. Although past research has examined gender differences in news media coverage of candidates for elective office, few studies have looked at media coverage of high court nominees. As women are increasingly nominated to courts around the world, it is important to examine how nominations are covered by the news media and whether there is significant variation in coverage based on gender. We analyze media coverage of high court justices in five democracies: Argentina, Australia, Canada, South Africa, and the United States. We compare coverage of women appointed to the highest court with coverage of the most temporally proximate male nominees. We also compare coverage over time within each country as well as between countries that nominated women early with those that did so more recently. We find some evidence of gendered coverage, especially with regard to the attention paid to the gender of the women appointees

Assessing Preference Change on the U.S. Supreme Court ∗

the Center for Statistics and the Social Sciences with funds from the University Initiatives Fund at the University of Washington. Supplementary results, a replication dataset, and documented C++ code to estimate the model using the Scythe Statistical Library (Martin and Quinn, 2001) are available in a web appendix at the authors ’ websites. The datasets were built from the Original United States Supreme Court Database (Spaeth, 2001a), the Vinson-Warren Court Database (Spaeth, 2001b), and a dataset generously provided by Le