State Supreme Court Interim Appointments and Identity Data

Aggregating replication files for a study on identity and interim appointments to elected state supreme courts. The data supports analysis of judicial selection processes across U.S. states. Specific details on rows, columns, and file formats are not provided in the input.

Use Cases

• Analyze the relationship between judicial identity characteristics and interim appointment outcomes in state supreme courts.
• Replicate statistical models from the associated study on elected state judiciaries.
• Examine patterns in interim appointments across different state supreme court systems.

Strengths

• Data is associated with a peer-reviewed publication in State Politics and Policy Quarterly.
• The dataset was last updated in February 2026, indicating recent maintenance.

Limitations

• The input provides no information on the dataset's size, structure, or specific variables, limiting initial assessment.
• The scope is restricted to U.S. state supreme courts, which may not be generalizable to other judicial systems.

Provenance

Source

State Politics and Policy Quarterly Dataverse

Collection Method

Replication data for an academic study.

Freshness

2026-02-12

Geography

United States (state-level)