RAPID: Racial Attitudes and the 2009 Confirmation Hearings on Sonia Sotomayor

RAPID：种族态度和 2009 年索尼娅·索托马约尔确认听证会

• 批准号: 0948452
• 负责人: Tyson King-Meadows
• 金额: --
• 依托单位: University of Maryland Baltimore County
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2009
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2009-07-15 至 2010-06-30
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=0948452&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: RAPID; Racial; Attitudes; 2009; Confirmation

This project investigates how the 2009 confirmation hearings on Supreme Court nominee Sonia M. Sotomayor might affect political and racial attitudes. This information will be collected through a pre- and post-hearing national survey of 1100 adult citizens along with an oversample of 500 blacks and 500 Hispanics. The project specifically examines political and racial attitudes toward racial and ethnic minority groups as well as political and racial attitudes of racial and ethnic minority groups before and after the hearings. This study thus uses the Sotomayor hearings to investigate dormant attitudes toward law and the courts and whether the hearings generated particular concerns about the Court and its decisions, federalism, civil rights and liberties, and race relations. The project measures evaluations of the nominee and the confirmation hearings, select Court decisions, members of Congress and the President, and attitudes toward racial and ethnic groups, gender, and the Court as well as perceptions of racial resentment. The design includes a re-interview of panelists from the 2008 Cooperative Congressional Election Study. These features enable an assessment of attitudes before the nomination, after the nomination but before Senate hearings, and after the Senate hearings. Finally, the project facilitates comparisons with findings from other surveys.The project will have broad impacts by advancing new discovery about the interactions among and malleability of political and racial attitudes. In particular, results will illustrate how and why Supreme Court confirmation hearings affect both attitudes about racial and ethnic groups and attitudes of racial and ethnic groups toward the political system. The project will yield cross-sectional and longitudinal data that will enable scholars to compare the attitudes of whites, blacks, and Hispanics.

该项目调查了2009年关于最高法院提名人Sonia M. Sotomayor的确认听证会如何影响政治和种族态度。这些信息将通过对1100名成年公民的听证前和听证后的全国调查以及500个黑人和500名西班牙裔的人进行收集。该项目特别研究了对种族和少数民族群体的政治和种族态度，以及听证会之前和之后的种族和种族少数群体的政治和种族态度。因此，这项研究使用Sotomayor听证会来调查对法律和法院的休眠态度，以及听证会是否引起了对法院及其裁决，联邦制，公民权利和自由以及种族关系的特殊担忧。该项目衡量提名人的评估以及确认听证会，特定法院裁决，国会议员和总统，以及对种族和族裔，性别和法院的态度，以及对种族敬意的看法。该设计包括对2008年合作国会选举研究的小组成员的重新介绍。这些特征使提名之前，提名之后，在参议院听证会之前和参议院听证会之后，可以评估态度。最后，该项目有助于与其他调查的发现进行比较。该项目将通过推进有关政治和种族态度之间相互作用的新发现以及延展性的新发现。特别是，结果将说明最高法院确认听证会如何以及为何影响对种族和族裔群体的态度以及种族和族裔对政治制度的态度。该项目将产生横断面和纵向数据，这将使学者能够比较白人，黑人和西班牙裔的态度。