Professors Christenson and Glick Publish on ACA Case in AJPS
Dino Chistenson and David Glick, both Assistant Professors of American politics, just published an article titled “Chief Justice Roberts’s Health Care Decision Disrobed: The Microfoundations of the Supreme Court’s Legitimacy” in the American Journal of Political Science. The article uses the Supreme Court’s health care decision in 2012 to evaluate what influences assessments of the Court’s legitimacy. Christenson and Glick ran a panel study in which the same people were surveyed over and over again before and after the case. They study both how peoples’ ideological alignment with the Court and their exposure to the idea that it may be a political institution (via an article claiming that Chief Justice Roberts was influenced by factors other than his legal beliefs) affect views of the Court.