How judges think in the Brazilian Supreme Court: Estimating ideal points and identifying dimensions

We use NOMINATE (Nominal Three Step Estimation) (Poole and Rosenthal, 1983, 1997) to estimate ideal points for all Supreme Court Justices in Brazil from 2002 to 2012. Based on these estimated preferences we identify the nature of the two main dimensions along which disagreements tend to occur in thi...

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Main Authors: Pedro Fernando Almeida Nery Ferreira, Bernardo Mueller
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Elsevier 2014-09-01
Series:EconomiA
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Online Access:http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1517758014000253