Book contents
- Curbing the Court
- Curbing the Court
- Copyright page
- Dedication
- Contents
- Figures
- Tables
- Acknowledgments
- 1 The Guardians of Judicial Independence
- 2 Theories of Public Support for Court-Curbing
- 3 A Deep Dive into Supreme Court Evaluation and Support
- 4 General Policy Disagreement and Broadly Targeted Court-Curbing
- 5 Specific Policy Disagreement and Support for Court-Curbing
- 6 Partisan Polarization and Support for Court-Curbing
- 7 Procedural Perceptions and Motivated Reasoning
- 8 Reconsidering the Public Foundations of Judicial Independence
- References
- Index
7 - Procedural Perceptions and Motivated Reasoning
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 14 August 2020
- Curbing the Court
- Curbing the Court
- Copyright page
- Dedication
- Contents
- Figures
- Tables
- Acknowledgments
- 1 The Guardians of Judicial Independence
- 2 Theories of Public Support for Court-Curbing
- 3 A Deep Dive into Supreme Court Evaluation and Support
- 4 General Policy Disagreement and Broadly Targeted Court-Curbing
- 5 Specific Policy Disagreement and Support for Court-Curbing
- 6 Partisan Polarization and Support for Court-Curbing
- 7 Procedural Perceptions and Motivated Reasoning
- 8 Reconsidering the Public Foundations of Judicial Independence
- References
- Index
Summary
Chapter 7 examines how disagreement with the general ideological direction of the Court, as well as disagreement with specific rulings, impacts citizens’ perceptions of the Court’s decision-making procedures. It argues that citizens use these perceptions to rationalize support for Court-curbing when they dislike the Court’s rulings or general policy direction. In observational and experimental data, the chapter finds a strong association between policy disagreement and perceptions that the Court is politicized and its decisions shaped by partisan and ideological interests. The chapter also finds that political engagement generally increases the impact of policy disagreement on procedural perceptions.
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- Curbing the CourtWhy the Public Constrains Judicial Independence, pp. 215 - 244Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2020