These articles develop the theory, explain the empirical method, and provide validation for JuDJIS's measurement approach.
Kevin L. Cope, An Expert-Sourced Measure of Judicial Ideology (2024) (theory, method, and validation) (conditional accept, Political Analysis) (working paper) [SSRN]
Kevin L. Cope, The Conceptual Challenge to Measuring Ideology, in The Oxford Handbook of Comparative Judicial Behavior (Epstein et al. eds.) (forthcoming 2024) (theory) [SSRN]
Kevin L. Cope & Li Zhang, Applications of a Hierarchical Dictionary Method for Analyzing Political Texts Via Nested Ngrams (2024) (text analysis and hierarchical ngram explanation) (working paper)
Kevin L. Cope, Ideology in the Federal Judiciary (2024) (working paper)
