RAPID: The Dynamics of Minority Support for the Supreme Court.

RAPID：少数派对最高法院支持的动态。

• 批准号: 2315950
• 负责人: Jay Krehbiel
• 金额: $ 6.36万
• 依托单位: West Virginia University Research Corporation
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2023
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2023-04-01 至 2024-03-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=2315950&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: RAPID; Dynamics; Minority; Support; Supreme

Public trust in the Supreme Court is vital for the health of American democracy. Recent controversies, however, have brought unprecedented challenges to the Court’s legitimacy. With trust in the Court at historic lows and recent research suggesting the Court’s legitimacy may be more fragile than previously thought, commentators and scholars alike are raising increasingly dire warnings that the Court’s decisions in highly salient cases have the potential to erode its foundation of public support. Largely missing from this growing discussion of the Court’s public standing, however, is the perspective of the country’s racial and ethnic minorities. As a result, it is unclear whether minority citizens continue to hold the Court in high regard and what impact, if any, the Court’s decisions have on that support. To explore the dynamics of support for the Supreme Court among minority citizens, the project will employ a combination of survey research and elite interviews. A nationally-representative survey of Americans will provide insights into the state of public support for the Supreme Court, with an oversampling of African-American, Hispanic, and Native American respondents allowing for detailed analyses of the Court’s standing among minority citizens. To understand the effect of a significant Court decision on minority citizens’ views of the Court, the project will further focus on the attitudes of Native Americans. To do so, the project will leverage the Court’s anticipated 2023 ruling in a high-profile case in two ways. First, Native American survey respondents will be re-contacted after the Court’s decision with a second wave of the survey, thereby providing an opportunity to evaluate the impact of the ruling on the Court’s support among those most directly affected by the decision. Second, interviews with leaders of Native American tribes both before and after the Court’s decision will grant insights into the ruling’s impact on the views of minority communities’ political leaders. The findings from this research will yield important insights into the Supreme Court’s relationship with minorities at this critical juncture in American politics.This award reflects NSF's statutory mission and has been deemed worthy of support through evaluation using the Foundation's intellectual merit and broader impacts review criteria.

公众对最高法院的信任对美国民主的健康至关重要。然而，最近的争议给法院的合法性带来了前所未有的挑战。随着对法院的信任处于历史低点，最近的研究表明法院的合法性可能比以前认为的更脆弱，评论员和学者都提出了越来越可怕的警告，即法院在非常突出的案件中的裁决有可能侵蚀其公众支持的基础。然而，在关于法院公共地位的日益激烈的讨论中，几乎没有人从该国少数种族和族裔的角度来看待问题。因此，不清楚少数民族公民是否继续高度尊重法院，以及法院的裁决对这种支持有何影响。为了探索少数民族公民支持最高法院的动态，该项目将采用调查研究和精英访谈相结合的方法。一项具有全国代表性的美国人调查将深入了解公众对最高法院的支持情况，对非洲裔美国人、西班牙裔美国人和美洲原住民的受访者进行过抽样调查，以便详细分析最高法院在少数族裔公民中的地位。为了了解法院的一项重要裁决对少数族裔公民对法院的看法的影响，该项目将进一步侧重于美洲原住民的态度。为此，该项目将以两种方式利用法院预计在2023年对一个备受瞩目的案件作出的裁决。首先，在法院作出裁决后，将通过第二波调查再次与美洲原住民调查答卷人联系，从而有机会评估裁决对最直接受裁决影响的人支持法院的影响。第二，在最高法院作出裁决之前和之后与美洲土著部落领导人的访谈将使人们深入了解裁决对少数族裔社区政治领导人的看法的影响。这项研究的结果将产生重要的见解最高法院与少数民族的关系在这个关键时刻在美国政治。这个奖项反映了NSF的法定使命，并已被认为是值得通过评估使用基金会的知识价值和更广泛的影响审查标准的支持。