Ideological Proximity and Support for The Supreme Court

Malhotra, Neil; Jessee, Stephen A.

doi:10.1007/s11109-013-9257-x

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“…The logic of using equivalent votes by elites and members of the mass public to understand representation is not limited to studies of the U.S. Congress. Recently, work has also sought to understand the correspondence between judicial behavior, specifically voting by U.S. Supreme Court judges, and citizen preferences by asking citizens to cast their votes on cases previously considered by the Court (Jessee and Malhotra 2013;Malhotra and Jessee 2014). In SI Appendix D, we show that expressed opinions by survey respondents on Supreme Court cases are affected by a treatment providing information about the vote split between judges appointed by Republican and Democratic presidents.…”

Section: Results: Survey Supreme Court Opinions Affected By Party Splmentioning

confidence: 88%

“…Recently, work has also sought to understand the correspondence between judicial behavior, specifically voting by U.S. Supreme Court judges, and citizen preferences by asking citizens to cast their votes on cases previously considered by the Court (Jessee and Malhotra 2013;Malhotra and Jessee 2014). Recently, work has also sought to understand the correspondence between judicial behavior, specifically voting by U.S. Supreme Court judges, and citizen preferences by asking citizens to cast their votes on cases previously considered by the Court (Jessee and Malhotra 2013;Malhotra and Jessee 2014).…”

Section: Results: Survey Supreme Court Opinions Affected By Party Splmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…The third study, fielded online with Lucid, Inc. in late 2017 and early 2018, asked respondents for their opinions on 11 roll-call votes along with the Supreme Court cases used in Malhotra and Jessee (2014). The second study, fielded online with Survey Sampling International (SSI), expanded the project by asking respondents in 2016 for their opinions across 12 recent roll-call votes.…”

Section: Research Design and Data Collectionmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…The first two studies randomized respondents into the party split or control conditions only. The third study, fielded online with Lucid, Inc. in late 2017 and early 2018, asked respondents for their opinions on 11 roll-call votes along with the Supreme Court cases used in Malhotra and Jessee (2014). The third study randomized participants into all four conditions for legislative voting and to two conditions for judicial decisions.…”

Section: Research Design and Data Collectionmentioning

confidence: 99%

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On the Meaning of Survey Reports of Roll‐Call “Votes”

Hill

Huber

2019

American J Political Sci

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Contemporary efforts to evaluate representation often compare survey measures of how citizens say they would vote on legislation to what elected officials do in office. These comparisons generally suggest poor representation. We argue here that this common design is unlikely to effectively evaluate representation because responses to survey questions differ in important aspects from voting in legislatures. Measurement error and construct validity undermine the comparison. Three survey experiments show that providing partisan and nonpartisan information readily available to legislators materially changes respondents' expressed preferences on roll-call votes. With information, expressed policy positions are both less centrist and more closely matched to legislator behavior in their preferred party. Respondents also appear aware of their own lack of knowledge in evaluating roll-call policy votes. The treatment effect of information decreases in confidence judging policy in that area. We show similar patterns for respondent opinions on Supreme Court decisions.

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Section: Results: Survey Supreme Court Opinions Affected By Party Splmentioning

confidence: 88%

Section: Results: Survey Supreme Court Opinions Affected By Party Splmentioning

confidence: 99%

Section: Research Design and Data Collectionmentioning

confidence: 99%

Section: Research Design and Data Collectionmentioning

confidence: 99%

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On the Meaning of Survey Reports of Roll‐Call “Votes”

Hill

Huber

2019

American J Political Sci

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“…The key is to rely on surveys of voters and politicians containing a common set of questions. Then, one can use joint scaling methods and these common items as "bridges" to connect the policy preferences of voters to the preferences of the legislators who represent them (Battista, Peress, and Richman 2013;Jessee 2016;Malhotra and Jessee 2014;Saiegh 2015;Tausanovitch and Warshaw 2013).…”

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Disentangling the Role of Ideology and Partisanship in Legislative Voting: Evidence from Argentina

Alemán

Micozzi

Pinto

et al. 2017

Legislative Studies Qtrly

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We present a novel approach to disentangle the effects of ideology, partisanship, and constituency pressures on roll‐call voting. First, we place voters and legislators on a common ideological space. Next, we use roll‐call data to identify the partisan influence on legislators' behavior. Finally, we use a structural equation model to account for these separate effects on legislative voting. We rely on public opinion data and a survey of Argentine legislators conducted in 2007–08. Our findings indicate that partisanship is the most important determinant of legislative voting, leaving little room for personal ideological position to affect legislators' behavior.

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Congressional Approval and Responsible Party Government: The Role of Partisanship and Ideology in Citizen Assessments of the Contemporary U.S. Congress

Algara

2021

Polit Behav

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Ideological Proximity and Support for The Supreme Court

Cited by 37 publications

References 42 publications

On the Meaning of Survey Reports of Roll‐Call “Votes”

On the Meaning of Survey Reports of Roll‐Call “Votes”

Disentangling the Role of Ideology and Partisanship in Legislative Voting: Evidence from Argentina

Congressional Approval and Responsible Party Government: The Role of Partisanship and Ideology in Citizen Assessments of the Contemporary U.S. Congress

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