Elitism of the Supreme Court: Liberals v. Conservatives

“After the feedback about this homework, I hopefully fixed my dataset. A tie now consists of a Justice and the school they attened and every school they have hired a clerk from. This solved my issue from before where there was limited connections.

My results were chaotic involving the entire history of Justices. I decided to focus on the current Justices on the Supreme Court. Further, I thought it would be interesting to split up and compare networks of conservative and liberal Justices(based on the party of the appointing president).”

Justin Burnworth
2022-03-30

“Network graph for liberal Justices”

“Network graph for conservative Justices.”

“Leading Eigenvector Community Detection: Liberal”

$`1`
[1] "Stephen Breyer"    "Boston University" "Boston College"   
[4] "Duke"              "Georgia"           "GW"               
[7] "North Carolina"    "Virginia"          "Yale"             

$`2`
[1] "Elena Kagan"           "Kentaji Brown Jackson"
[3] "Berkeley"              "Harvard"              
[5] "Stanford"             

$`3`
 [1] "Sonia Sotomayor" "Georgetown"      "Michigan"       
 [4] "NYU"             "UCLA"            "Brooklyn"       
 [7] "Hawaii"          "Cornell"         "Northwestern"   
[10] "Vanderbilt"      "Texas"          

$`4`
[1] "Chicago"  "Columbia"

“Spinglass Community Detection: Liberal”

$`1`
[1] "Kentaji Brown Jackson" "Harvard"              

$`2`
[1] "Elena Kagan" "Berkeley"    "Chicago"     "Columbia"   
[5] "Georgetown"  "Michigan"    "Stanford"   

$`3`
[1] "Sonia Sotomayor" "Duke"            "Yale"           
[4] "Brooklyn"        "Hawaii"          "Cornell"        
[7] "Northwestern"    "Vanderbilt"      "Texas"          

$`4`
[1] "Stephen Breyer"    "Boston University" "Boston College"   
[4] "Georgia"           "GW"                "North Carolina"   
[7] "NYU"               "UCLA"              "Virginia"

“Spinglass Community Detection: Conservative”

$`1`
[1] "Samuel Alito" "BYU"          "Duke"         "Georgetown"  
[5] "Ohio State"   "Texas"        "UCLA"         "Vanderbilt"  

$`2`
[1] "Neil Gorsuch"    "Brett Kavanaugh" "Chicago"        
[4] "Michigan"        "NYU"             "Yale"           
[7] "Cornell"         "Iowa"            "Mississippi"    

$`3`
[1] "Clarence Thomas" "Columbia"        "Penn"           
[4] "Berkeley"        "Georgia"         "Catholic"       
[7] "Kansas"          "North Carolina"  "Seattle"        

$`4`
[1] "John Roberts"      "Amy Coney Barrett" "Harvard"          
[4] "Stanford"          "Virginia"          "GW"               
[7] "Northwestern"      "Notre Dame"        "yale"

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Citation

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Burnworth (2022, April 3). Data Analytics and Computational Social Science: Elitism of the Supreme Court: Liberals v. Conservatives. Retrieved from https://github.com/DACSS/dacss_course_website/posts/httpsrpubscomburnworthj884412/

BibTeX citation

@misc{burnworth2022elitism,
  author = {Burnworth, Justin},
  title = {Data Analytics and Computational Social Science: Elitism of the Supreme Court: Liberals v. Conservatives},
  url = {https://github.com/DACSS/dacss_course_website/posts/httpsrpubscomburnworthj884412/},
  year = {2022}
}
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