PUBLIC OPINION AND SUPREME COURT: THE GOLDWATER CAMPAIGN

Abstract

This is the first report of a long-term study of public opinion in relation to the United States judiciary, financed by the National Science Foundation. It focuses on Goldwater's 1964 presidential campaign and its influence on public attitudes toward the Supreme Court. The authors have reached a number of suggestive, if not positive, conclusions through the use of correlational and multivariate analyses.