Segal-Cover score

Segal-Cover score

Segal-Cover scores attempt to measure the relative liberalism or conservatism of United States Supreme Court justices. Their method of computing ideology scores was introduced by Jeffrey Segal and Albert Cover in their article "Ideological Values and the Votes of U.S. Supreme Court Justices," published in the "American Political Science Review" in 1989. The initial scores from the 1989 article were updated by Segal et al. in 1995.

The scores are based on analysis of pre-confirmation newspaper editorials regarding the nomination of each justice. Since the scores are not based on judicial rulings or opinions, they are relatively exogenous to judicial behavior. However, Segal and Cover found that the scores were strongly correlated with the votes of the justices. The scores range from 0 (most conservative), to 1 (most liberal). A score of how qualified each judge is is also given, with 0 being unqualified and 1 being most qualified. The Segal-Cover Scores for the members of the current Court are as follows (qualification on right):

External links

* [http://ws.cc.stonybrook.edu/polsci/jsegal/qualtable.pdf Jeff Segal's list of justices and their scores dating back to Justice Black (pdf)]


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