How the Supreme Court's Partisan Composition Affects Americans' Preferences for Nominees: Evidence from a Conjoint Experiment

• In Event: Experiments and the Law

Brief Overview

Using a preregistered conjoint experiment (n = 9,895), we explore Americans’ preferences for Supreme Court nominees. We find that the partisan composition of the Court significantly affects which attributes of nominees are most salient.

Author

• Victor Yuhang Wu, Stanford University