A Cultural Theory of Ideological, Political Value, and Group Influences on the U.S. Supreme Court

• In Event: United States Supreme Court

Brief Overview

We use Grid-Group 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 measures and compare the explanatory power of MQ ideology and MQ CT measures.

Authors

• Rob Paige Robinson, California State University-Fullerton

• Brendon Swedlow, Northern Illinois University

• Meng Yuan, Chongqing University

• Cassandra Epping, Northern Illinois University