Supreme Court Polarization, Public Judgments of Judicial Authority, and Implication for Institutional Legitimacy

• In Event: CWC: Support for American Judicial Institutions

Brief Overview

Analysis of the impact of Supreme Court polarization on public judgments of judicial authority in the political system. Competing hypotheses are derived from process- and policy-based theoretical models. Two survey experiments test the hypotheses.

Author

• Brandon L. Bartels, George Washington University