Document Type
Article
Publication Date
12-2022
Keywords
state supreme courts, state legislatures, court curbing, state institutions
Abstract
The examination of the interaction between the institutions in American state politics has long suffered from a dearth of data. This is the case despite the importance of understanding the separation of powers in the states and the specific effects on policy making and policy outcomes. In this article, I introduce a new, original dataset of court-curbing introductions by state legislators. The data include information on more than 1,200 state legislative bills that would restrict the power of the courts. In this article, I provide descriptive statistics for the data, employ the data to test hypotheses, and explain how this data may be used in future scholarly research on the interactions between state legislators and state courts.
Funding Source
This article was published Open Access thanks to a transformative agreement between Milner Library and Cambridge University Press.
Creative Commons License
This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License.
DOI
10.1017/spq.2022.8
Recommended Citation
Leonard, Meghan, "New Data on Court Curbing by State Legislatures" (2022). Faculty Publications – Politics and Government. 1.
https://ir.library.illinoisstate.edu/fpapol/1
Comments
This article was originally published in State Politics & Policy Quarterly22, no. 4 (2022): 483-500. https://doi.org/10.1017/spq.2022.8.