2020
DOI: 10.1111/ssqu.12885
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Ideology and Risk Focus: Conservatism and Opinion‐Writing In the U.S. Supreme Court

Abstract: Neuroscience proffers evidence that self-described conservatives have stronger fear responses and aversion to risk than self-described liberals. Combined with studies showing that judicial ideology drives the content of Supreme Court majority opinions, I argue that conservatism is linked to risk focus in Supreme Court majority opinions. I use the Language Inquiry and Word Count (LIWC) software on a sample of Supreme Court majority opinions, and find that conservative opinions score higher on the LIWC dimension… Show more

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“…The text of each governor's mask mandate executive order was analyzed using a sentiment analysis program, LIWC (Linguistic Inquiry and Word Count). LIWC has been utilized across an increasingly wide range of social science contexts beyond psychology, where it was developed, that includes analyzing the language used by dictators to remain in office (Windsor et al, 2018) to the analysis of Supreme Court opinions (Ballingrud, 2021; Corley & Wedeking, 2014). LIWC enables the quantitative analysis of language use through a nonstatistical machine‐readable dictionary‐based approach that counts the keywords in a text from previously defined categories (Pennebaker et al, 2015).…”
Section: Measuring Gubernatorial Action and Crisis Leadershipmentioning
confidence: 99%
“…The text of each governor's mask mandate executive order was analyzed using a sentiment analysis program, LIWC (Linguistic Inquiry and Word Count). LIWC has been utilized across an increasingly wide range of social science contexts beyond psychology, where it was developed, that includes analyzing the language used by dictators to remain in office (Windsor et al, 2018) to the analysis of Supreme Court opinions (Ballingrud, 2021; Corley & Wedeking, 2014). LIWC enables the quantitative analysis of language use through a nonstatistical machine‐readable dictionary‐based approach that counts the keywords in a text from previously defined categories (Pennebaker et al, 2015).…”
Section: Measuring Gubernatorial Action and Crisis Leadershipmentioning
confidence: 99%