The Role of Neutral Legal Criteria in Generating Support for the U.S. Supreme Court

• In Event: Judicial Decision-Making: Public Response and Influence

Brief Overview

How do different legal rationales structuring how the American public forms attitudes toward both specific and diffuse support for the U.S. Supreme Court? We answer this question using several experiments.

Authors

• James F. Spriggs, Washington University in St Louis

• Thomas G. Hansford, University of California-Merced

• Reagan J Dobbs, University of California-Merced