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标题：Does Public Opinion Influence The Supreme Court? Possibly Yes (But We’Re Not Sure Why)
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作者：Lee Epstein ; Andrew D. Martin
期刊名称：Journal of Constitutional Law
印刷版ISSN：1521-2823
电子版ISSN：1942-8561
出版年度：2010
卷号：13
期号：2
页码：263
出版社：University of Pennsylvania Law School
摘要：Using qualitative data and historical methods, Barry Friedman as-serts with confidence that "we the people" influence the decisions of the U.S. Supreme Court.1Using quantitative data and statistical me-thods, political scientists are not so sure. Despite their best efforts to validate basic claims about the effect of public opinion on the Court, the evidence remains mixed at best.2We enter this dialogue but in a voice distinct from existing politi-cal science work. Rather than explore the relationship between the public and the Court on a term-by-term basis, we analyze it at the lev-el of the case. This allows us to exploit more nuanced public opinion data, as well as to attend to the many other case-level factors that may influence the Court's decisions