Is Partisanship Increasingly Salient when the Media Covers Supreme Court Justices? Evidence from the New York Times, 1970-2022.

• In Event: Partisanship and Polarization

Brief Overview

Justice Breyer laments that the media increasingly covers justices using partisan terms, posing a major threat to the acceptance of the rule of law. Using computational methods and a large corpus, we empirically examine this claim and its nuances.

Authors

• Li Zhang, University of Virginia

• Kevin Lynn Cope, University of Virginia