RAPID: The Dynamics of Minority Support for the Supreme Court.

RAPID：少数派对最高法院支持的动态。

• 批准号: 2315950
• 负责人: Jay Krehbiel
• 金额: $ 6.36万
• 依托单位: West Virginia University Research Corporation
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2023
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2023-04-01 至 2024-03-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=2315950&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: RAPID; Dynamics; Minority; Support; Supreme

Public trust in the Supreme Court is vital for the health of American democracy. Recent controversies, however, have brought unprecedented challenges to the Court’s legitimacy. With trust in the Court at historic lows and recent research suggesting the Court’s legitimacy may be more fragile than previously thought, commentators and scholars alike are raising increasingly dire warnings that the Court’s decisions in highly salient cases have the potential to erode its foundation of public support. Largely missing from this growing discussion of the Court’s public standing, however, is the perspective of the country’s racial and ethnic minorities. As a result, it is unclear whether minority citizens continue to hold the Court in high regard and what impact, if any, the Court’s decisions have on that support. To explore the dynamics of support for the Supreme Court among minority citizens, the project will employ a combination of survey research and elite interviews. A nationally-representative survey of Americans will provide insights into the state of public support for the Supreme Court, with an oversampling of African-American, Hispanic, and Native American respondents allowing for detailed analyses of the Court’s standing among minority citizens. To understand the effect of a significant Court decision on minority citizens’ views of the Court, the project will further focus on the attitudes of Native Americans. To do so, the project will leverage the Court’s anticipated 2023 ruling in a high-profile case in two ways. First, Native American survey respondents will be re-contacted after the Court’s decision with a second wave of the survey, thereby providing an opportunity to evaluate the impact of the ruling on the Court’s support among those most directly affected by the decision. Second, interviews with leaders of Native American tribes both before and after the Court’s decision will grant insights into the ruling’s impact on the views of minority communities’ political leaders. The findings from this research will yield important insights into the Supreme Court’s relationship with minorities at this critical juncture in American politics.This award reflects NSF's statutory mission and has been deemed worthy of support through evaluation using the Foundation's intellectual merit and broader impacts review criteria.

然而，公众对最高法院的信任对于美国民主的健康至关重要，但最近的争议给最高法院的合法性带来了前所未有的挑战，而且最近的研究表明最高法院的合法性可能比以前更加脆弱。认为，评论家和学者们越来越多地发出可怕的警告，即法院在高度突出的案件中的判决有可能削弱其公众支持的基础，然而，在关于法院公众地位的日益激烈的讨论中，很大程度上缺少的是法院的观点。因此，尚不清楚少数群体公民是否继续高度重视法院，以及法院的裁决对这种支持有何影响（如果有）。在少数族裔公民中，该项目将采用调查研究和精英访谈相结合的方式，对美国人进行全国代表性调查，并对非裔美国人、西班牙裔和原住民进行过抽样，以深入了解公众对最高法院的支持状况。美国受访者允许详细分析法院在少数族裔公民中的地位。为了了解法院重大判决对少数族裔公民对法院看法的影响，该项目将进一步关注美洲原住民的态度。为此，该项目将利用法院预计于 2023 年做出的裁决。首先，在法院做出第二波调查后，将重新联系美国原住民调查受访者，从而提供一个机会来评估该裁决对法院在大多数人中的支持率的影响。直接受其次，在法院判决之前和之后对美洲原住民部落领导人的采访将有助于了解该判决对少数族裔社区政治领导人观点的影响。这项研究的结果将为了解最高法院的关系提供重要的见解。在美国政治的关键时刻与少数族裔合作。该奖项反映了 NSF 的法定使命，并通过使用基金会的智力价值和更广泛的影响审查标准进行评估，被认为值得支持。