You Better Shop Around: How Litigant Characteristics Influence Support for Supreme Court Decisions

• In Event: The Identity of the Judge

Brief Overview

We use a conjoint experiment to understand how public opinion about the Supreme Court changes given characteristics of the litigant and a controversial issue, gun control.We manipulate race and gender to examine public response to the case outcome.

Authors

• Jamil Shatema Scott, Georgetown University

• Elizabeth Lane, Louisiana State University

• Jessica A. Schoenherr, Michigan State University