Public Response to Legal Dimensions of Court Decisions

• In Event: Courts and Public Opinion

Brief Overview

We propose to implement a conjoint experiment in which we vary the multiple dimensions of legal justification provided in a court decision to assess legalistic preferences and ideological cueing effects.

Authors

• Thomas G. Hansford, University of California-Merced

• Reagan J Dobbs, University of California-Merced

• James F. Spriggs, Washington University in St Louis