Judicial Support for Social Groups and Political Values: A Cultural Theory

• In Event: Agenda Setting and Decision Making on the USSC

Brief Overview

We use Cultural Theory (CT) to code First Amendment USSC decisions for the values and groups they support; develop Martin-Quinn (MQ)-like scores for our CT values measures and compare the explanatory power of MQ ideology and MQ CT values measures.

Authors

• Robert Reif Robinson, California State University-Fullerton

• Brendon Swedlow, Northern Illinois University

• Meng Yuan, Chongqing University

• Cassandra Epping, Northern Illinois University

• Tammie-Louise Finnegan, Northern Illinois University (NIU)