Who Can Impact the US Supreme Court’s Legitimacy?

IF 0.7 4区社会学 Q3 Social Sciences

Justice System Journal Pub Date : 2020-01-02 DOI:10.1080/0098261X.2019.1687371

Miles T. Armaly

引用次数: 4

Abstract

Abstract Individuals make judgments about the US Supreme Court via an uncommon preexisting positivity toward the institution. But they are also influenced by elite cues. Under scrutiny here is whether figures who are not as notorious as, say, presidents can influence attitudes toward the Supreme Court. I argue that lesser-salience figures can influence public support for the judiciary, but that some limit of influence surely exists. Using two original survey experiments, I demonstrate both of these propositions to be true. Altogether, of the 12 political figures purported to criticize the Court, 8 are able to compel respondents to change how legitimate they believe the judiciary is in a manner consistent with feelings toward the figure. Figures whom many individuals cannot associate with a particular partisan group do not wield this influence. The support on which the Court relies may be more malleable than previously believed, but is not entirely unresisting.

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谁能影响美国最高法院的合法性?

个人通过对美国最高法院不寻常的预先存在的积极态度来做出对该机构的判断。但他们也会受到精英线索的影响。这里受到审查的是，那些不像总统那样臭名昭著的人物，是否能影响人们对最高法院的态度。我认为，不那么引人注目的人物可以影响公众对司法机构的支持，但这种影响肯定是有限度的。通过两个原始的调查实验，我证明了这两个命题都是正确的。总的来说，在12位据称批评最高法院的政治人物中，有8位能够以与对该数字的感受一致的方式迫使受访者改变他们认为司法机构的合法性。许多人无法将其与特定党派团体联系起来的人物不会施加这种影响。法院所依赖的支持可能比以前认为的更具可塑性，但并非完全没有抵抗。

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Justice System Journal LAW-

CiteScore

0.90

自引率

14.30%

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期刊介绍： The Justice System Journal is an interdisciplinary journal that publishes original research articles on all aspects of law, courts, court administration, judicial behavior, and the impact of all of these on public and social policy. Open as to methodological approaches, The Justice System Journal aims to use the latest in advanced social science research and analysis to bridge the gap between practicing and academic law, courts and politics communities. The Justice System Journal invites submission of original articles and research notes that are likely to be of interest to scholars and practitioners in the field of law, courts, and judicial administration, broadly defined. Articles may draw on a variety of research approaches in the social sciences. The journal does not publish articles devoted to extended analysis of legal doctrine such as a law review might publish, although short manuscripts analyzing cases or legal issues are welcome and will be considered for the Legal Notes section. The Justice System Journal was created in 1974 by the Institute for Court Management and is published under the auspices of the National Center for State Courts. The Justice System Journal features peer-reviewed research articles as well as reviews of important books in law and courts, and analytical research notes on some of the leading cases from state and federal courts. The journal periodically produces special issues that provide analysis of fundamental and timely issues on law and courts from both national and international perspectives.