GVPT 875   Spring 2009 

Reference Materials  
 Useful Data-base and Information sites
   

  A Few Sites that might be useful

• University of South Carolina’s Judicial Research Initiative (JuRI) www.cas.sc.edu/poli/juri
• U.S. Courts of Appeals Data Base Phase I (1925-1988). Donald R. Songer.
• U.S. Supreme Court Judicial Data Base.  Harold J. Spaeth
• The State Supreme Court Data Project (Rice University and Michigan State University)
• Briefs and other filings by the U.S. Solicitor General in cases before the Supreme Court, 1982-
• Overrulings U.S. Supreme Court opinions subsequently overturned
• Thomas: Legislation
• Political Science Data Sets. Political Methodology Section of the APSA
• Social Science Data Sets. UC San Diego 
• Federal Statistics (from 70 Agencies). FEDSTATS

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