While “news deserts” are rhetorically powerful, we argue the concept is deeply problematic
due to its normative presumptions and its descriptive fuzziness. The concern over the loss of …

Previous research focused on popular US Supreme Court rulings expanding rights;
however, less is known about rulings running against prevailing public opinion and …

What motivates political actors with diverging interests to respect the Supreme Court's
authority? A popular answer is that the public serves as the guardian of judicial …

This study investigates cross-platform differences in social media by analyzing the
contending candidates who represent different political ideology during the 2016 …

Supreme Court vacancies are now characterized by great partisan efforts to confirm—or
impede—the nomination. Amid a politicized vacancy before the 2020 election, there was …

Today's news media environment incentivizes gatekee** practices that lead to a bias
toward content containing partisan conflict and ideological extremity. Using a content …

Support for the US Supreme Court does not appear to be polarized on ideological or
partisan lines. However, the form of polarization for which the mass political behavior field …

Objective We analyze the extent to which, if any, institutional support of the US Supreme
Court was influenced by the confirmation hearings of Brett Kavanaugh. Methods We use a …

It is widely agreed that dissatisfaction with Supreme Court decisions harms the Court's
standing among the public. However, we do not yet know how or why Court performance …

Public support for the US Supreme Court has been trending downward for more than a
decade. High-profile decisions and hotly contested nominations have drawn the Court into …