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100			_aChristenson, Dino P. _918785
245			_aReassessing the Supreme Court: How decisions and negativity bias affect legitimacy
260			_bPolitical Research Quarterly
300			_a72(3), Sep, 2019: p.637-652.
520			_aWhile the Supreme Court’s legitimacy is generally considered essential to its influence, scholars continue to debate whether the Court’s decisions affect individuals’ assessments of it. The last week of the 2013 term provides an unusual opportunity to evaluate these issues because the Court made a conservative decision concerning the Voting Rights Act (VRA) only one day before it made a liberal one about same-sex marriage. We use original panel data of individuals’ views throughout this period, including a wave collected on the day between the two decisions, to investigate the links among decisions and legitimacy. We find that diffuse support for the Court is sensitive to decisions in these two salient cases conditional on individuals’ ideological distance to the Court and their policy support. Moreover, the negative effects of an unfavorable decision are stronger than the positive effects of a favorable one. - Reproduced.
700			_aGlick, David M. _916976
773			_aPolitical Research Quarterly
906			_aSUPREME COURT
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