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Do Policy Messengers Matter? Majority Opinion Writers as Policy Cues in Public Agreement with Supreme Court Decisions
Scott S. Boddery,Jeff Yates +1 more
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The authors used a survey experiment to investigate whether individuals are willing to agree with Supreme Court opinions authored by ideologically similar justices even though the decisions cut against their self-identified ideological policy preferences.Abstract:
Does the identity of a majority opinion writer affect the level of agreement a Supreme Court decision receives from the public? Using a survey experiment, we manipulate majority opinion authors to investigate whether individuals are willing to agree with Supreme Court opinions authored by ideologically similar justices even though the decisions cut against their self-identified ideological policy preferences. Our study provides insight into the extent to which policy cues—represented by a political institution’s policy messenger—affect agreement with a given policy. We find that a messenger effect indeed augments the level of agreement a given Supreme Court case receives.read more
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Thinking fast and slow.
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The Nature and Origins of Mass Opinion.
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Strategic Behavior and Policy Choice on the U.S. Supreme Court
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Snap Judgment: Implicit Perceptions of a (Political) Court
TL;DR: This article found that the public implicitly perceived the Supreme Court as less political than Congress (high politicization) and more political than traffic court (low politicization), and that implicit perceptions have a distinct effect on predicting diffuse support for the court and specific support for one of two Court decisions.
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Thinking, Fast and Slow
TL;DR: Buku terlaris New York Times and The Economist tahun 2012 as mentioned in this paper, and dipilih oleh The NewYork Times Book Review sebagai salah satu dari sepuluh buku terbaik tahune 2011, Berpikir, Cepat and Lambat ditakdirkan menjadi klasik.
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Amazon's Mechanical Turk A New Source of Inexpensive, Yet High-Quality, Data?
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The psychology of attitudes.
Alice H. Eagly,Shelly Chaiken +1 more
TL;DR: The only truly comprehensive advanced level textbook designed for courses in the pscyhology of attitudes and related studies in attitude measurement, social cognition is as mentioned in this paper, which contains a comprehensive coverage of classic and modern research and theory.
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The Nature and Origins of Mass Opinion
TL;DR: Zaller as discussed by the authors developed a comprehensive theory to explain how people acquire political information from elites and the mass media and convert it into political preferences, and applied this theory to the dynamics of public opinion on a broad range of subjects, including domestic and foreign policy, trust in government, racial equality, and presidential approval, as well as voting behaviour in U.S. House, Senate and presidential elections.
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A perspective on judgment and choice: Mapping bounded rationality.
TL;DR: Determinants and consequences of accessibility help explain the central results of prospect theory, framing effects, the heuristic process of attribute substitution, and the characteristic biases that result from the substitution of nonextensional for extensional attributes.