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The Supreme Court, the Media, and Public Opinion: Comparing Experimental and Observational Methods

The Journal of Legal Studies, 2016
Can Supreme Court rulings change Americans’ policy views? Prior experimental and observational studies come to conflicting conclusions because of methodological limitations.
K. Linos, Kimberly A. Twist
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Reconsidering Positivity Theory: What Roles Do Politicization, Ideological Disagreement, and Legal Realism Play in Shaping U.S. Supreme Court Legitimacy?

, 2017
To what degree is the legitimacy of the U.S. Supreme Court currently at risk? Perhaps the most widely accepted view of how the Supreme Court acquires and maintains its legitimacy is positivity theory, which claims that the legitimizing symbols of ...
J. Gibson, Michael Nelson
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Opportunity and Overrides: The Effect of Institutional Public Support on Congressional Overrides of Supreme Court Decisions

, 2017
Existing theories of legislative-judicial relations emphasize the role of public support for the judiciary on the likelihood of legislative compliance. Although Congress can strengthen or weaken the Supreme Court’s decisions after initial compliance, the
M. J. Nelson, A. Uribe-McGuire
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U.S. Supreme Court Opinions and Their Audiences

, 2016
This book is the first study specifically to investigate the extent to which U.S. Supreme Court justices alter the clarity of their opinions based on expected reactions from their audiences.
Ryan C. Black   +3 more
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The Supreme Court and the Supreme People

The Journal of Politics, 1954
"No matter whether the Constitution follows the flag or not, the Supreme Court follows the election returns." So concluded the immortal Dooley after some observations about the Insular Cases in the course of which he also said of the Constitution that it wasn't likely to chase the flag anywhere, being more in the nature of a home-staying Constitution ...
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Androgyny and the Supreme Court

Journal of Women, Politics & Policy, 1980
Since 1971 the Supreme Court has decided a large number of cases presenting questions of gender-based discrimination and other issues of interest to feminists. While the cases have been decided on various constitutional and statutory grounds, it is argued that the Court, on the whole, has been guided by the principle of androgyny-defined here as the ...
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The Supreme Court and the Juvenile Court

Crime & Delinquency, 1967
For the first time in its 68-year history, the juvenile court has felt the impact of the United States Supreme Court. It would be impossible to predict the exact effect of the decisions, but unquestionably they will be of prime importance in their influ ence on juvenile court procedures.
Corinne R. Goodman, Noah Weinstein
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The Influence of Public Sentiment on Supreme Court Opinion Clarity

, 2016
When the Supreme Court makes a decision contrary to public opinion, justices are likely to worry the Court will lose public support. So, what are justices to do?
Ryan C. Black   +3 more
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Measuring the Political Salience of Supreme Court Cases

Journal of Law and Courts, 2015
While Supreme Court cases are generally salient or important, some are many degrees more important than others. A wide range of theoretical and empirical work throughout the study of judicial politics implicates this varying salience. Some work considers
T. Clark, Jeffrey R. Lax, Douglas Rice
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Chief Justice Roberts's Health Care Decision Disrobed: The Microfoundations of the Supreme Court's Legitimacy

, 2015
The 2012 challenge to the Affordable Care Act was an unusual opportunity for people to form or reassess opinions about the Supreme Court. We utilize panel data coupled with as-if random assignment to reports that Chief Justice Roberts's decision was ...
Dino P. Christenson, D. Glick
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