{"title":"Snooze or Snub? How the Public Reacts to Judicial Attendance at the State of the Union","authors":"Natalie C. Rogol, Matthew D. Montgomery","doi":"10.1080/0098261X.2022.2112327","DOIUrl":null,"url":null,"abstract":"Abstract The president’s State of the Union Address is the pinnacle agenda-setting event of the executive’s year. Generally, along with the executive’s cabinet, the entire House and Senate are present. One branch’s attendance, however, has noticeably fluctuated over time. To date, we know of no research that studies the public response to the Court’s decision to skip or attend. For this study, we develop a survey experiment to explore the impact that media coverage of justices’ decisions to stay home has on public opinion. We hypothesize participants will be willing to lower their approval of the Court and the president when justices skip the State of the Union. We also suggest that (dis)loyalty to the president should moderate opinions on a justice’s decision to stay home. Supporters of the president should show more propensity to lower their evaluation the Court when a majority of justices choose to stay home.","PeriodicalId":45509,"journal":{"name":"Justice System Journal","volume":"8 1","pages":"279 - 301"},"PeriodicalIF":0.7000,"publicationDate":"2022-08-23","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":"1","resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":null,"PeriodicalName":"Justice System Journal","FirstCategoryId":"90","ListUrlMain":"https://doi.org/10.1080/0098261X.2022.2112327","RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":null,"EPubDate":"","PubModel":"","JCR":"Q3","JCRName":"Social Sciences","Score":null,"Total":0}
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Abstract
Abstract The president’s State of the Union Address is the pinnacle agenda-setting event of the executive’s year. Generally, along with the executive’s cabinet, the entire House and Senate are present. One branch’s attendance, however, has noticeably fluctuated over time. To date, we know of no research that studies the public response to the Court’s decision to skip or attend. For this study, we develop a survey experiment to explore the impact that media coverage of justices’ decisions to stay home has on public opinion. We hypothesize participants will be willing to lower their approval of the Court and the president when justices skip the State of the Union. We also suggest that (dis)loyalty to the president should moderate opinions on a justice’s decision to stay home. Supporters of the president should show more propensity to lower their evaluation the Court when a majority of justices choose to stay home.
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.