RAPID: Racial Attitudes and the 2009 Confirmation Hearings on Sonia Sotomayor

本项目调查了2009年最高法院提名人索尼娅·M·肯尼迪的确认听证会。索托马约尔可能会影响政治和种族态度。这些信息将通过听证会前后对1100名成年公民沿着500名黑人和500名西班牙裔的过度抽样进行全国调查来收集。该项目具体审查了对少数种族和族裔群体的政治和种族态度，以及少数种族和族裔群体在听证会前后的政治和种族态度。因此，本研究使用索托马约尔听证会调查休眠对法律和法院的态度，以及听证会是否产生特别关注的法院及其决定，联邦制，公民权利和自由，种族关系。该项目衡量对被提名人和确认听证会的评价，最高法院的部分决定，国会议员和总统，对种族和族裔群体，性别和法院的态度以及对种族怨恨的看法。设计包括重新采访小组成员从2008年合作国会选举研究。这些特点使人们能够在提名之前、提名之后但在参议院听证会之前以及参议院听证会之后评估态度。最后，该项目有助于与其他调查的结果进行比较，并将产生广泛的影响，推动对政治和种族态度之间的相互作用和可塑性的新发现。特别是，结果将说明如何以及为什么最高法院确认听证会影响种族和民族群体的态度和种族和民族群体对政治制度的态度。该项目将产生横截面和纵向数据，使学者能够比较白人，黑人和西班牙裔的态度。

This project investigates how the 2009 confirmation hearings on Supreme Court nominee Sonia M. Sotomayor might affect political and racial attitudes. This information will be collected through a pre- and post-hearing national survey of 1100 adult citizens along with an oversample of 500 blacks and 500 Hispanics. The project specifically examines political and racial attitudes toward racial and ethnic minority groups as well as political and racial attitudes of racial and ethnic minority groups before and after the hearings. This study thus uses the Sotomayor hearings to investigate dormant attitudes toward law and the courts and whether the hearings generated particular concerns about the Court and its decisions, federalism, civil rights and liberties, and race relations. The project measures evaluations of the nominee and the confirmation hearings, select Court decisions, members of Congress and the President, and attitudes toward racial and ethnic groups, gender, and the Court as well as perceptions of racial resentment. The design includes a re-interview of panelists from the 2008 Cooperative Congressional Election Study. These features enable an assessment of attitudes before the nomination, after the nomination but before Senate hearings, and after the Senate hearings. Finally, the project facilitates comparisons with findings from other surveys.The project will have broad impacts by advancing new discovery about the interactions among and malleability of political and racial attitudes. In particular, results will illustrate how and why Supreme Court confirmation hearings affect both attitudes about racial and ethnic groups and attitudes of racial and ethnic groups toward the political system. The project will yield cross-sectional and longitudinal data that will enable scholars to compare the attitudes of whites, blacks, and Hispanics.