Source Cues and Public Support for the Supreme Court
Source Cues and Public Support for the Supreme Court
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最高法院的来源线索和公众支持
DOI：
10.1177/1532673x14560809
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发表时间：
2015
影响因子：
1.5
通讯作者：
Jonathan P. Kastellec
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作者：
T. Clark;Jonathan P. Kastellec
众所周知，公众在形成意见时往往依赖于线索或启发式方法。与此同时，关于最高法院意见形成的主要理论认为，这种支持是相对固定的。利用一系列调查实验，我们发现来源线索显著影响公众对法院的支持，包括个人认为法院应在多大程度上独立于选举产生的分支机构。具体地说，我们发现党派来源的线索在塑造公众舆论方面发挥了重要作用，这些舆论涉及大法官的终身任期以及最高法院在宪法问题上的最终决定权--当被告知来自对方的精英提出了遏制法院的措施时，个人支持这些措施的可能性低于当这些措施得到中立消息来源或自己政党成员的支持时。我们还发现，对特定裁决的具体支持与人们认为最高法院应该不受外部影响的程度之间存在很强的联系，因为个人更有可能认为大法官应该受到示威者的影响，因为他们支持的一方是进行示威的一方。这些结果对于了解政治家能够在多大程度上影响公众对法院的总体支持，以及评估公众在多大程度上将法院视为“政治”机构具有重要意义。
It is well known that the public often relies on cues or heuristics when forming opinions. At the same time, leading theories of opinion formation about the Supreme Court see such support as relatively fixed. Using a series of survey experiments, we find source cues significantly influence the public’s support for the Court, including the extent to which individuals believe the Court should be independent from the elected branches. Specifically, we find partisan source cues play a significant role in shaping public opinion regarding life tenure for the justices and the extent to which the Court should have the final say in constitutional matters—individuals are less likely to support court-curbing measures when informed that elites from the opposite party have proposed them than when such measures are endorsed by either a neutral source or members of their own party. We also find a strong connection between specific support for particular decisions and the degree to which people believe the Court should be free from external influence, as individuals are more likely to say the justices should be influenced by demonstrators when the side they favor is the one doing the demonstrating. These results have important implications for understanding the extent to which politicians can shape the public’s overall support for the Court, as well as for assessing the degree to which the public views the Court as a “political” institution.
影响因子：
3.1
作者：
Tilley, James;Hobolt, Sara B.
通讯作者：
Hobolt, Sara B.