Bonica, Adam; Chilton, Adam; Goldin, Jacob; Rozema, Kyle; … - 2017
judges across the federal judicial hierarchy. Second, CBI scores can capture temporal changes in ideology. Third, CBI scores …We present a new measure of judicial ideology based on judicial hiring behavior. Specifically, we utilize the ideology … of the law clerks hired by federal judges to estimate the ideology of the judges themselves. These Clerk-Based Ideology …