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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2015 Feb 11.
Published in final edited form as: Law Probab Risk. 2011;10(4):329–354. doi: 10.1093/lpr/mgr019

Table 2. Cox and Miles (2008), Table 6, Columns 1-3 Reporting Probit Findings on the Likelihood of Voting for Section 2 Liability.

Variable (1)
Cox & Miles Table 6, col. 1
(2)
Cox & Miles Table 6, col. 4
(3)
Cox & Miles Table 6, col. 5
(4)
Cox & Miles Table 6, col. 6
Judge was Democratic Appointee .125** (.04) .140** (.037) .166** (.039) .155** (.038)
Judge was African-American .300** (.09) - - -
Judge was Female -.020 (.056) - - -
Age - .003 (.002) - -
Judge Attended Ivy League College - - .018 (.051) -
Judge Attended Elite Law School - - -.078* (.041) -
Judge Previously Served as Law Clerk - - .016 (.044) -
Judge Previously Served in State Leg or Exec Branch - - - .021 (.039)
Judge Previously Served on State Court - - - -.056 (.040)
Judge Previously Served in Federal Leg. or Exec. Branch - - - .002 (.04)

Note:

*

means significant P<.10 and

**

indicates significant at P<.05. The regressions include the same controls as in Model (2) of Table 5: controls for whether the case occurred in a jurisdiction covered by section 5, whether the case was an appeal, whether the plaintiffs were African-American, whether the challenge was to an at-large lection scheme or a reapportionment plan, whether the governing body challenged was local, and fixed-effect controls for judicial circuits and years.