Type of Document Master's Thesis Author O'Geen, Andrew URN etd-07222006-090832 Title Judicial Quality and the Supreme Court Nominating Process Degree Master of Arts Department Political Science Advisory Committee
Advisor Name Title Robert M. Howard Committee Chair David C. Nixon Committee Member Scott Graves Committee Member Keywords
- nomination
- confirmation
- quality
- judicial
- Supreme Court
Date of Defense 2006-04-11 Availability unrestricted Abstract In recent months, presidential appointments to the Supreme Court have become an increasingly salient issue with both the public and the press. The relevance of the topic makes it an inviting subject for political science research. When looking at the question of judicial quality, the problem that researchers have faced in the past is one of quantifying quality. This work seeks to expand on previous survey research done on the quality of individual justices. By using quality scores (Comiskey 2004) as a dependent variable, it is possible to analyze influences on the President’s nomination choice and their relative impacts on the quality of justices. By using a more rigorous approach, this study can more confidently make assertions about the nature of the nomination and confirmation process and the quality of Supreme Court justices.Files
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