Ideology and Specific Support for the Supreme Court

Kathryn Haglin; Soren Jordan; Alison Higgins Merrill; Joseph Daniel Ura

doi:10.1177/1065912920950482

Ideology and Specific Support for the Supreme Court

Kathryn Haglin, Soren Jordan, Alison Higgins Merrill, Joseph Daniel Ura

Political Science (Duluth)

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Abstract

We develop and assess an account of ideological asymmetries in public support for the Supreme Court. We find that specific support for the Supreme Court is more strongly negatively related to perceptions that the Court is overly liberal than perceptions that the Court is overly conservative. Our findings provide a more complete theoretical account of dynamics in specific support for the Supreme Court and indicate a mechanism behind the recent decline in the Supreme Court’s public standing.

Original language	English (US)
Pages (from-to)	955-969
Number of pages	15
Journal	Political Research Quarterly
Volume	74
Issue number	4
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1177/1065912920950482
State	Published - Dec 2021

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The authors are grateful to Valerie Hoekstra, Jonathan Nash, Kjerston Nelson, Jim Rogers, Amy Steigerwalt, and several anonymous referees for their valuable feedback on earlier iterations of this manuscript. The author(s) received no financial support for the research, authorship, and/or publication of this article.

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Supreme Court
approval
ideology
public opinion
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