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Replication Data for: The Appointment of Judges by Ministers Political Preferment in England, 1880–2005

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Title Replication Data for: The Appointment of Judges by Ministers Political Preferment in England, 1880–2005
 
Identifier https://doi.org/10.7910/DVN/FTE3YK
 
Creator Hanretty, Chris
 
Publisher Harvard Dataverse
 
Description I investigate appointment to the Court of Appeal and House of Lords between 1880 and 2005. Exploiting the fact that appointment is almost invariably from within the ranks of existing High Court judges and using a conditional logit model, I test for effects of legal, professional, and political factors on appointment prospects. Although there is no advantage to having the same political affiliation as the appointing lord chancellor, judges are more likely to be promoted if they were previously appointed by the incumbent party.
 
Subject Law
Social Sciences
 
Contributor Hanretty, Chris