Turkish Constitutional Court Justice Voting Records, 1982-2024

40,417 individual voting observations from 86 justices across 2,205 decisions of the Turkish Constitutional Court between 1982 and 2024. The dataset, created by Abdullah Yasin Erdem and hosted on Harvard Dataverse, supports replication of analyses on judicial dissent under different political regimes. Variables include dissent outcomes, appointment channels, case subject matter, and judicial characteristics.

Use Cases

• Modeling dissent probability based on justice appointment channel and professional background.
• Analyzing the impact of institutional regime changes on judicial voting patterns over time.
• Investigating the relationship between case salience, complexity, and dissent likelihood.
• Studying career-stage effects on judicial behavior using variables like tenure and years to retirement.

Strengths

• Covers a long temporal span (1982-2024) across four distinct political-institutional regimes.
• Includes 40,417 observations with variables for justice identity, case features, and institutional context.
• Provides a full codebook documenting variable construction and operationalization of qualitative characteristics.

Limitations

• Case identifiers and decision dates have been removed to protect justice identity, limiting some temporal analyses.
• Column-level documentation is absent from the provided metadata; field semantics must be inferred from the codebook after download.

Provenance

Source

Turkish Constitutional Court's official decision database.

Collection Method

Compiled for replication of the associated academic article.

Time Range

1982 to 2024

Freshness

Last updated 2026-04-22 18:21:57

Geography

Turkey