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Court Legitimacy & The Shadow Docket, Colton Tilley
Court Legitimacy & The Shadow Docket, Colton Tilley
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News Treatment Of The Supreme Court: Language Selection, Ideological Directions, And Public Support, Alexander Denison
News Treatment Of The Supreme Court: Language Selection, Ideological Directions, And Public Support, Alexander Denison
Theses and Dissertations--Political Science
In an increasingly diverse media landscape, how much of the ideological trends seen in current news reporting affect coverage of the U.S. Supreme Court? This work examines two different aspects of the Court's activities, their decisions and the confirmation hearings of Court nominees, analyzing what factors, if any, lead to differences in coverage language. Finally, through the use of a survey experiment, I analyze whether these differences in language, in combination with positive symbolic imagery, affect attitudes toward the institution. This work provides a novel consideration of whether the Court is subject to the same ideological slant found in coverage …