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Departures From the Court: The Political Landscape and Institutional Constraints

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Previous findings on whether U.S. Supreme Court justices include strategic factors in their decisions to leave the Court have been mixed. We use ideological distance measures to capture the political landscape and retest the hypothesis that justices use strategic political considerations when making the decision to leave the Court. Using a Cox model of proportional hazards, we find that justices do take ideological distance from the Senate into account when making retirement decisions. Thus, the evidence indicates that justices engage in strategic behavior when contemplating retirement.

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American Politics Research

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United States : sage., 2009

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English

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1532-673x

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Volume 37, Number 3, May 2009. pp. 486-507

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U.S. Supreme Court
Judicial retirement
Strategic model
Cox model
Departures From the Court

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