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Cooperation And Division: An Empirical Analysis Of Voting Similarities And Differences During The Stable Rehnquist Court Era—1994 To 200, Mark S. Klock

Mark S Klock

The Stable Rehnquist Court Era (SRCE) covers the period from the appointment of Justice Breyer to the passing of Chief Justice Rehnquist. There has been only one longer period of stability in the Court’s history, and that was in the early nineteenth century when far fewer cases were decided. Thus the SRCE presents a unique opportunity with a large number of observations to conduct statistical analysis of the Justices’ votes while the composition of the Court is held constant. I present a statistical empirical analysis of voting for this period both for the potentially interesting results that can be learned, …