Rob Robinson
Dados Biográficos
| ID | 3846432 |
|---|---|
| NOME | Rob Robinson |
| PRENOMES | Rob |
| SOBRENOME | Robinson |
| ASSINATURA | ROBINSON R |
| AFILIAÇÕES | California State University, Fullerton |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-6509-793X |
| VERIFICADO | Sim |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 12 |
| TOTAL DE CITAÇÕES | 54 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 12 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 0 |
| PRIMEIRO ANO DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 2010 |
| ANO MAIS RECENTE DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 2026 |
| ÍNDICE H | 5 |
Social Identity Group Cues in Judicial Ideology and Decision-Making on the U.S. Supreme Court
While interest group influences on U.S. Supreme Court decisions have been extensively studied, research on the role that litigants’ social identity group cues play in judicial ideology and decision-making is in its infancy. We hypothesize that justices will rely on both their policy preferences and group cues to decide cases. To test these hypotheses, we develop new measures of litigant social group identity, relying on both left-right ideology a…
Does Procedural Fairness Impact Public Perception of Judicial Opinions? Evidence from a Survey Experiment
Judicial authority relies heavily on the reader’s perception that judges make fair and legitimate decisions. Do such perceptions rest primarily on the reader’s agreement with the decision? Or does an opinion’s reasoning style, as distinct from outcome, impact a reader’s perceptions of legitimacy? In this study, we test whether incorporating elements of procedural fairness into judicial opinions impacts readers’ perceptions of fairness and legitim…
Lacking Legislative Experience
Though once commonplace, presidents no longer nominate individuals with legislative experience to the U.S. Supreme Court. What difference does this shift make? Drawing on theories that connect judicial background characteristics to decision-making, I test whether legislative background impacts federal judicial review. Using nonparametric matching and almost 150 years of judicial review decisions, I find that, while such experience decreases the l…
Picturing the Homeless, Building International Solidarities
In this conversation, Rob Robinson shares reflections based upon decades of organizing and community building with tenants and homeless residents in New York City, as well as transnationally with groups based in Hungary, Brazil, Miami, Spain, and beyond. While Rob shares insights from his own experience being unhoused, he focuses upon ongoing work that he has been a part of since then with groups such as Picture the Homeless that have organized a…
The Political Constitution
Beyond Liberal and Conservative
A significant undiscussed problem with the leading conceptualization of ideologically based judicial behavior, Jeffrey Segal and Harold Spaeth’s attitudinal model, is its lack of theory. This problem leads to circular reasoning, ad hoc coding adjustments, and inaccurate characterizations and explanations of case outcomes, judicial votes and ideologies, and trends in judicial behavior. A values-based theory of ideology, such as the cultural theory…
Cultural Change and Policy Images in Policy Subsystems
Baumgartner and Jones' theory of conflict expansion highlights the importance of policy imagery in the maintenance of policy subsystems, as a sharp increase in negative imagery can drive conflict expansion and subsystem dissolution. However, we still know relatively little about what drives rapid shifts in image valence. In this study, I examine how cultural change affects receptiveness to policy images, drawing on the cultural theory ( CT ) deve…
Culture and Legal Policy Punctuation in the Supreme Court's Gender Discrimination Cases
For the most part, punctuated equilibrium scholarship has ignored the legal policy change generated by the Supreme Court. In this study, I address this gap though an examination of the Court's equal protection and gender cases from the 1970s. My case study here has two aims. First, I offer an adaptation of the jurisprudential regimes framework as a device for framing and identifying legal policy punctuations. After identifying Reed v. Reed (1971)…
Punctuated Equilibrium and the Supreme Court
In the legislative and executive branches, policy scholars have used punctuated equilibrium (PE) theory to describe and explain patterns of change. However, there has been little examination of how PE might apply to courts and legal policy change. This article addresses that gap by providing evidence that legal policy change—here conceptualized as changes in what precedents the Supreme Court most often cites—is governed by PE theory. After making…
Executive Branch Socialization and Deference on the U.S. Supreme Court
Are Supreme Court justices with prior experience in the executive branch more likely to defer to the president in separation of powers cases? While previous research has suggested that such background may signal judicial policy preferences but does not shape them, I argue here that institutional socialization may indeed increase future judicial deference to the president. Using an original data set of executive power cases decided between 1942 an…
Still Chastened
For the first time since 1968, the election of Barack Obama raises the possibility of a liberal majority on the Supreme Court. In this article, I assess whether such an Obama Court would lead to significant constitutional change. Drawing on research regarding both the internal dynamics of the Supreme Court and the effect of the Court s external environmental, I develop four benchmarks that historically correlate with more rapid and significant co…
The Relative (Un)Importance of Rehnquist Court Decisions
The Rehnquist Court took conservative positions more often than its immediate predecessors. Less clear, however, is the degree to which its decisions actually impacted the legal framework. Given studies that suggest that ideological heterogeneity within Supreme Court majority coalitions and systematic trends of “institutional thickening” hinder the creation of legally important decisions, I hypothesize that the decisions of the Rehnquist Court sh…
Culture and Legal Policy Punctuation in the Supreme Court's Gender Discrimination Cases
For the most part, punctuated equilibrium scholarship has ignored the legal policy change generated by the Supreme Court. In this study, I address this gap though an examination of the Court's equal protection and gender cases from the 1970s. My case study here has two aims. First, I offer an adaptation of the jurisprudential regimes framework as a device for framing and identifying legal policy punctuations. After identifying Reed v. Reed (1971)…
Cultural Change and Policy Images in Policy Subsystems
Baumgartner and Jones' theory of conflict expansion highlights the importance of policy imagery in the maintenance of policy subsystems, as a sharp increase in negative imagery can drive conflict expansion and subsystem dissolution. However, we still know relatively little about what drives rapid shifts in image valence. In this study, I examine how cultural change affects receptiveness to policy images, drawing on the cultural theory ( CT ) deve…
Punctuated Equilibrium and the Supreme Court
In the legislative and executive branches, policy scholars have used punctuated equilibrium (PE) theory to describe and explain patterns of change. However, there has been little examination of how PE might apply to courts and legal policy change. This article addresses that gap by providing evidence that legal policy change—here conceptualized as changes in what precedents the Supreme Court most often cites—is governed by PE theory. After making…
Beyond Liberal and Conservative
A significant undiscussed problem with the leading conceptualization of ideologically based judicial behavior, Jeffrey Segal and Harold Spaeth’s attitudinal model, is its lack of theory. This problem leads to circular reasoning, ad hoc coding adjustments, and inaccurate characterizations and explanations of case outcomes, judicial votes and ideologies, and trends in judicial behavior. A values-based theory of ideology, such as the cultural theory…
Executive Branch Socialization and Deference on the U.S. Supreme Court
Are Supreme Court justices with prior experience in the executive branch more likely to defer to the president in separation of powers cases? While previous research has suggested that such background may signal judicial policy preferences but does not shape them, I argue here that institutional socialization may indeed increase future judicial deference to the president. Using an original data set of executive power cases decided between 1942 an…
The Relative (Un)Importance of Rehnquist Court Decisions
The Rehnquist Court took conservative positions more often than its immediate predecessors. Less clear, however, is the degree to which its decisions actually impacted the legal framework. Given studies that suggest that ideological heterogeneity within Supreme Court majority coalitions and systematic trends of “institutional thickening” hinder the creation of legally important decisions, I hypothesize that the decisions of the Rehnquist Court sh…
Still Chastened
For the first time since 1968, the election of Barack Obama raises the possibility of a liberal majority on the Supreme Court. In this article, I assess whether such an Obama Court would lead to significant constitutional change. Drawing on research regarding both the internal dynamics of the Supreme Court and the effect of the Court s external environmental, I develop four benchmarks that historically correlate with more rapid and significant co…
The Relative (Un)Importance of Rehnquist Court Decisions
The Rehnquist Court took conservative positions more often than its immediate predecessors. Less clear, however, is the degree to which its decisions actually impacted the legal framework. Given studies that suggest that ideological heterogeneity within Supreme Court majority coalitions and systematic trends of “institutional thickening” hinder the creation of legally important decisions, I hypothesize that the decisions of the Rehnquist Court sh…
Executive Branch Socialization and Deference on the U.S. Supreme Court
Are Supreme Court justices with prior experience in the executive branch more likely to defer to the president in separation of powers cases? While previous research has suggested that such background may signal judicial policy preferences but does not shape them, I argue here that institutional socialization may indeed increase future judicial deference to the president. Using an original data set of executive power cases decided between 1942 an…
Punctuated Equilibrium and the Supreme Court
In the legislative and executive branches, policy scholars have used punctuated equilibrium (PE) theory to describe and explain patterns of change. However, there has been little examination of how PE might apply to courts and legal policy change. This article addresses that gap by providing evidence that legal policy change—here conceptualized as changes in what precedents the Supreme Court most often cites—is governed by PE theory. After making…
Culture and Legal Policy Punctuation in the Supreme Court's Gender Discrimination Cases
For the most part, punctuated equilibrium scholarship has ignored the legal policy change generated by the Supreme Court. In this study, I address this gap though an examination of the Court's equal protection and gender cases from the 1970s. My case study here has two aims. First, I offer an adaptation of the jurisprudential regimes framework as a device for framing and identifying legal policy punctuations. After identifying Reed v. Reed (1971)…
Cultural Change and Policy Images in Policy Subsystems
Baumgartner and Jones' theory of conflict expansion highlights the importance of policy imagery in the maintenance of policy subsystems, as a sharp increase in negative imagery can drive conflict expansion and subsystem dissolution. However, we still know relatively little about what drives rapid shifts in image valence. In this study, I examine how cultural change affects receptiveness to policy images, drawing on the cultural theory ( CT ) deve…
Beyond Liberal and Conservative
A significant undiscussed problem with the leading conceptualization of ideologically based judicial behavior, Jeffrey Segal and Harold Spaeth’s attitudinal model, is its lack of theory. This problem leads to circular reasoning, ad hoc coding adjustments, and inaccurate characterizations and explanations of case outcomes, judicial votes and ideologies, and trends in judicial behavior. A values-based theory of ideology, such as the cultural theory…
The Political Constitution
Picturing the Homeless, Building International Solidarities
In this conversation, Rob Robinson shares reflections based upon decades of organizing and community building with tenants and homeless residents in New York City, as well as transnationally with groups based in Hungary, Brazil, Miami, Spain, and beyond. While Rob shares insights from his own experience being unhoused, he focuses upon ongoing work that he has been a part of since then with groups such as Picture the Homeless that have organized a…
Lacking Legislative Experience
Though once commonplace, presidents no longer nominate individuals with legislative experience to the U.S. Supreme Court. What difference does this shift make? Drawing on theories that connect judicial background characteristics to decision-making, I test whether legislative background impacts federal judicial review. Using nonparametric matching and almost 150 years of judicial review decisions, I find that, while such experience decreases the l…
Does Procedural Fairness Impact Public Perception of Judicial Opinions? Evidence from a Survey Experiment
Judicial authority relies heavily on the reader’s perception that judges make fair and legitimate decisions. Do such perceptions rest primarily on the reader’s agreement with the decision? Or does an opinion’s reasoning style, as distinct from outcome, impact a reader’s perceptions of legitimacy? In this study, we test whether incorporating elements of procedural fairness into judicial opinions impacts readers’ perceptions of fairness and legitim…
Social Identity Group Cues in Judicial Ideology and Decision-Making on the U.S. Supreme Court
While interest group influences on U.S. Supreme Court decisions have been extensively studied, research on the role that litigants’ social identity group cues play in judicial ideology and decision-making is in its infancy. We hypothesize that justices will rely on both their policy preferences and group cues to decide cases. To test these hypotheses, we develop new measures of litigant social group identity, relying on both left-right ideology a…
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