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Replication data for: The Supreme Court and Issue Attention: The Case of Homosexuality

Harvard Dataverse (Africa Rice Center, Bioversity International, CCAFS, CIAT, IFPRI, IRRI and WorldFish)

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Title Replication data for: The Supreme Court and Issue Attention: The Case of Homosexuality
 
Identifier https://doi.org/10.7910/DVN/8YMGKR
 
Creator Joseph Daniel Ura
 
Publisher Harvard Dataverse
 
Description Previous studies have shown that a small number of Supreme Court decisions that
“rearrange[d] the . . . distribution of political benefits” have drawn the media’s
attention to the underlying issues involved in those cases. This article provides an
additional test of that empirical claim, examining the effects of the Supreme Court’s
gay rights cases on media coverage of homosexuality from 1990 to 2005. The data
indicate that Supreme Court decisions that expanded the scope of gay rights increased
coverage of homosexuality in both The New York Times and USA Today, while
cases
that affirmed the existing scope of gay rights had no such effect.