Interest Group Mobilization in the Supreme Court Nominations

• Project/Area Number: 22730123
• Research Category: Grant-in-Aid for Young Scientists (B)
• Allocation Type: Single-year Grants
• Research Field: Politics
• Research Institution: Gakushuin University
• Principal Investigator: SHOJI Kaori 学習院大学, 法学部, 教授 (20515647)
• Research Collaborator: CAMERON Charles プリンストン大学, 政治学部, 教授
• Project Period (FY): 2010-04-01 – 2013-03-31
• Project Status: Completed (Fiscal Year 2013)
• Budget Amount: ¥3,900,000 (Direct Cost: ¥3,000,000、Indirect Cost: ¥900,000); Fiscal Year 2012: ¥910,000 (Direct Cost: ¥700,000、Indirect Cost: ¥210,000); Fiscal Year 2011: ¥1,300,000 (Direct Cost: ¥1,000,000、Indirect Cost: ¥300,000); Fiscal Year 2010: ¥1,690,000 (Direct Cost: ¥1,300,000、Indirect Cost: ¥390,000)
• Keywords: アメリカ政治 / 司法政治 / 利益団体研究 / 政治学 / 利益団体

Research Abstract

The goal of this research project is to contribute to the further understanding of the function and historical changes of the interest group organizations in the United States through their mobilization attempts around the Supreme Court nominations since 1930s. Based on the findings from the newly built database covering the past 80 years of the Supreme Court nominations, the grantee conducted quantitative analyses using in-depth interviews of key interest group players from the selected cases of recent nominations.