Monday, June 15, 2009

Graphic of the Ideological History of the Supreme Court

The Ideological History of the Supreme Court of the U.S. is a graph showing how far to the left and right the justices are.

"Ideology numbers are Martin-Quinn scores, developed by political scientists Andrew Martin (Washington University) and Kevin Quinn (Harvard University) to measure 'the relative location of each U.S. Supreme Court justice on an ideological continuum.'"

I don't understand how they generated the numbers or necessarily what the different forms signify but it's pretty.

No comments: