A Double-Edged Sword: How Partisanship Helps and Harms Public Evaluations of the Court

• In Event: Public Opinion

Brief Overview

We assess the impact of decisions by manipulating the partisan context surrounding a decision on three distinct segments of the public: co-partisans aligned with the direction of a decision, out-partisans unaligned with it, and non-partisans.

Authors

• Christopher Newell Krewson, Brigham Young University-Provo

• Ali Shiraz Masood, Oberlin College