example_issues.py

#hard-coded examples of issue areas, scraped by hand
ISSUE_AREAS={
    1:'Criminal Procedure',
    2:'Civil Rights',
    3:'First Amendment',
    4:'Due Process',
    5:'Privacy',
    6:'Attorneys',
    7:'Unions',
    8:'Economic Activity',
    9:'Judicial Power',
    10:'Federalism',
    11:'Interstate Relations',
    12:'Federal Taxation',
    13:'Miscellaneous',
    14:'Private Action'}

class Issue:
    def __init__(self, name, keywords, scotus_cases, case_ind, response_map):
        self.name = name
        self.keywords = keywords
        self.scotus_cases = scotus_cases
        self.case_ind = case_ind
        self.response_map = response_map

    def __str__(self):
        return self.name

#list of supreme court cases and ANES public opinion questions relevant to
#civil rights along with map to scale response to [-1,+1]
def civil_rights():
    return Issue(
        name="Civil Rights",
        keywords=['black','color','oppressed','civil','rights'],
        scotus_cases=["Dred Scott v. Sandford (1856)",
            "Plessy v. Ferguson (1896)",
            "Korematsu v. UNITED STATES (1942)",
            "Korematsu v. UNITED STATES (1944)",
            "Shelley v. Kraemer (1948)", #split vote
            "Brown v. Board of Education (1954)",
            "Brown v. Board of Education (1955)",
            "Bailey v. Patterson (1962)",
            "Loving v. Virginia (1967)",
            "Jones v. Mayer Co. (1968)",
            "Griggs v. Duke Power Co. (1971)",
            "Lau v. Nichols (1974)",
            "Village of Arlington Heights v. Metropolitan Housing Development Corp. (1977)",
            "Regents of the University of California v. Bakke (1978)",
            "Batson v. Kentucky (1986)",
            "Grutter v. Bollinger (2003)"],
            case_ind=[2488,10220,19387,19575,20272,21112,21562,22828,24116,24444,25009,25736,26502,26966,28853,31724],
            response_map={
                'VCF0216': {i:i-48 for i in range(97)},
                'VCF0517': {1:+1,7:-1},
                'VCF0518': {1:+1,7:-1},
                'VCF0830': {1:+1,7:-1,9:0},
                'VCF0860': {1:-2,2:-1,3:0,4:1,5:2},
                'VCF0861': {1:-2,2:-1,3:0,4:1,5:2},
                'VCF0862': {1:-2,2:-1,3:0,4:1,5:2},
                'VCF0863': {1:-2,2:-1,3:0,4:1,5:2},
                'VCF0864': {1:-2,2:-1,3:0,4:1,5:2},
                'VCF0865': {1:-2,2:-1,3:0,4:1,5:2},
                'VCF0866': {1:-2,2:-1,3:0,4:1,5:2},
                'VCF0867': {1:+1,5:-1},
                'VCF9037': {1:+1,5:-1},
                'VCF9039': {1:+2,2:+1,3:0,4:-1,5:-2},
                'VCF9040': {1:-2,2:-1,3:0,4:+1,5:+2},
                'VCF9041': {1:-2,2:-1,3:0,4:+1,5:+2},
                'VCF9042': {1:2,2:1,3:0,4:-1,5:-2}
            }
        )

#keywords and cases corresponding to gay marriage issue
def gay_marriage():
    return Issue(
        name="Same-Sex Marriage",
        keywords=['gay','lesbian','marriage','same-sex','same sex','homosexual','spouse'],
        scotus_cases=['1985-144','1995-053','2002-083','2012-077','2012-079','2014-070'], #weirdly caseId 1966-119, Loving v. VA is entered twice
        case_ind=[28947,30801,31731,32844,32846,33022],
        response_map={
            'VCF0232': {i: i-48 for i in range(97)}, #polarity unclear as HOT/COLD is hard to judge
            'VCF0877': {1:2,2:1,4:-1,5:-2}, #polarity=descending
            'VCF0878': {1:1,5:-1}, #polarity=descending
            'VCF0876': {1:1,5:-1}, #polarity=descending
            'VCF0876a': {1:2,2:1,4:-1,5:-2}, #polarity=descending
        }
    )

if __name__ == "__main__":
    examples = [civil_rights(),gay_marriage()]
    for issue in examples:
        print(issue)