I have placed on my website powerpoint slides (of about 10 graphs) I presented for a work in progress on public opinion and the supreme court. The paper looks at public opinion over time and examines "confidence" in the Supreme Court broken down by partisanship, age, race, gender, region (South v. non-South although the data are not reliable) and education. The data come from the General Social Survey, which has asked since 1973 whether the respondent has a great deal of confidence in the Supreme Court. The slides can be viewed at:
http://www.law.upenn.edu/fac/npersily/workinprogress/pubopsct.pdf For the logistic regressions at the end, a plus signifies a positive significant relationship and a minus signifies a negative significant relationship. The second model, which includes a variable for the respondents' average confidence across institutions, is a much more reliable model. Comments and questions are welcome, as always. Nate P.S. I am well aware of the work of Greg Caldeira and others analyzing the same data and will attribute bountifully and accordingly once the paper is written. -- Nathaniel Persily Assistant Professor of Law University of Pennsylvania Law School 3400 Chestnut Street Philadelphia, PA 19104 (o) 215-898-0167 (f) 215-573-2025 http://persily.pennlaw.net/
