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Backlash and Legitimation: Macro Political Responses to Supreme Court Decisions
In: American journal of political science: AJPS, Band 58, Heft 1, S. 110-126
ISSN: 0092-5853
Backlash and Legitimation: Macro Political Responses to Supreme Court Decisions
In: American journal of political science, Band 58, Heft 1, S. 110-126
ISSN: 1540-5907
This article is a first attempt to develop and assess the competing predictions of the thermostatic model of public opinion and legitimation theory for the responses of public mood to Supreme Court decisions. While the thermostatic model predicts a negative relationship between the ideological direction of Supreme Court decisions and changes in public mood, legitimation theory predicts that changes in mood should be positively associated with the ideological content of the Court's actions. I assess these rival expectations by modeling the dynamic relationship between mood and cumulative judicial liberalism. The model estimates indicate a complex interaction between the Court and the mass public characterized by short-term backlash against Supreme Court decisions in mood followed by long-run movement toward the ideological positions taken by the Court. The results emphasize the legitimacy of the Court in American politics and point to a unique role for the Court in shaping public opinion. Adapted from the source document.
The Placement of Conflict: The Supreme Court and Issue Attention in the National Media
In: Covering the Court in the Digital Age, Richard Davis ed. New York: Cambridge University Press, 153-172, August 2014
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The Supreme Court and Issue Attention: The Case of Homosexuality
In: Political communication: an international journal, Band 26, Heft 4, S. 430-446
ISSN: 1091-7675
The Supreme Court and Issue Attention: The Case of Homosexuality
In: Political communication, Band 26, Heft 4, S. 430-446
ISSN: 1058-4609
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Signals or Noise?: The Influence of Judicial Ideology and Public Opinion on Supreme Court Affirmances
In: Ura, Joseph Daniel. and Alison Higgins. 2015. "Signals or Noise?: The Influence of Judicial Ideology and Public Opinion on Supreme Court Affirmances." Paper presented at the Annual Meeting of the Southern Political Science Association, New Orleans, LA.
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Greater public confidence in the US Supreme Court predicts more jurisdiction stripping
In: Political science research and methods: PSRM, Band 10, Heft 4, S. 831-839
ISSN: 2049-8489
AbstractA growing body of empirical research shows an association between public support for the US Supreme Court and both judicial independence and congressional court curbing activity. At the same time, studies of jurisdiction stripping show Congress' efforts to limit federal courts' jurisdiction are principally related to courts' workloads rather than ideological differences between courts and Congress. Here, the authors connect these streams of inquiry by testing the hypothesis of a negative relationship between public support for the Supreme Court and jurisdiction-stripping legislation. Contrary to prior studies, the authors find a positive relationship between Americans' confidence in the Supreme Court and jurisdiction stripping. This result indicates the need for additional research on the interactions among public opinion, federal courts, and Congress.
Polarization and the Decline of Economic Voting in American National Elections
In: Social science quarterly, Band 102, Heft 1, S. 83-89
ISSN: 1540-6237
ObjectiveThere is substantial evidence that American voters blame or credit the president for the state of the economy when making electoral decisions. However, a variety of findings on economic voting, cognitive biases in information processing, and party polarization indicate that both objective and subjective economic information should become less important to voters as partisan polarization increases. We evaluate whether partisan polarization attenuates the link between economic performance and citizens' votes.MethodsWe estimate statistical models of the incumbent party vote shares in U.S. presidential elections from 1952 to 2016 including as predictive terms national partisan polarization (DW‐NOMINATE) and the interaction between polarization and economic growth (annualized second quarter GDP change in election years).ResultsWe find support for our expectation that greater partisan polarization mitigates the association between economic performance and American election returns.ConclusionEconomic performance exerts less influence on vote choices when parties are highly polarized than when they are not. Also, currently high levels of partisan polarization in the United States indicate elections will remain competitive, even if economic conditions otherwise favor or undermine an incumbent candidate's chances of winning.
A majoritarian basis for judicial countermajoritarianism
In: Journal of theoretical politics, Band 32, Heft 3, S. 435-459
ISSN: 1460-3667
Judicial protection of disfavored minorities against oppressive legislation in majoritarian separation-of-power systems raises a puzzle: Why don't legislative majorities enacting discriminatory legislation curb judicial power when judges use their power to protect minorities and stymie the legislation? We answer this question by showing that judicial protection of disfavored minorities can emerge as an unintended by-product of majoritarian politics. We develop a model that includes the two aspects of judicial review Alexander Hamilton discusses in The Federalist No. 78: Judicial protection of disfavored minorities against hostile popular majorities, and judicial protection of majority interests against legislative depredation. It is the institutional linkage between these functions that induces popular majorities, within limits, to side with judges against legislatures even when those judges protect minorities that popular majorities want to oppress.
Experience counts: The chief justice, management tenure, and strategic behavior on the U.S. Supreme Court
In: Research & politics: R&P, Band 3, Heft 2, S. 205316801664446
ISSN: 2053-1680
We develop and test a theoretical account of the effect of management tenure on the strategic behavior of the chief justice of the United States. Substantial evidence from literatures on learning models and public management indicate that tenure (length of service) is positively related to management performance in public organizations. This suggests that the chief justice's tenure in office should be positively related to efficiency in the use of the chief justice's formal powers. We assess this hypothesis by replicating and extending Johnson et al.'s study of chief justice Burger's conference voting behavior. The data support our management tenure hypothesis, showing that Burger used greater discretion in reserving his conference vote over time as he became more adept at discriminating between circumstances when the tactic was strategically valuable and when it was not.
Managing the Supreme Court: The Chief Justice, Management, and Consensus
In: Journal of public administration research and theory, Band 26, Heft 2, S. 185-196
ISSN: 1477-9803
In this article, we draw on a prominent model of public management to develop a preliminary theoretical approach to understanding the role of the chief justice in Supreme Court decision-making. In particular, we argue that the Court may seek legitimacy through greater unanimity and discuss how the leadership of the chief justice can facilitate that effort. We assess a hypothesis derived from this theory, showing greater agreement among the justices as the incumbent chief justice's tenure in office increases. We argue that these results provide support for further attention to and development of a public administration-based approach to the study of Supreme Court decision-making. The application of public administration to judicial politics provides further evidence of management dynamics in American institutions.