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The analysis is conducted at the individual level using both bivariate and multivariate techniques with change in attitude toward the issue as the dependent variable. This final empirical chapter, Chapter 5, examines the hypotheses about how the content of the Court’s decision affects support for the Court (Change in Support for the Court Hypothesis, Town of Residence/Support for Court Interaction). The analysis in this chapter is conducted at the individual level using multivariate regression techniques with change in support for the Court as the dependent variable.

8 Many residents of the Village of Monroe saw this as an attempt to take over the school board and so they initiated a highly publicized campaign (The New York Times, 20 October 1976). Again, in the mid1980s approximately 600 boys who attended a Hasidic school refused to board school buses driven by women since the Hasidim believe that the sexes should be separate. A conflict between the Hasidim’s religious beliefs and the local schools ultimately wound up at the Supreme Court. While the majority of the Hasidic children attended private schools, paid for and run by the community itself, the community was unable to provide appropriate services for the approximately 200 children in need of special education.

Thus, there are also measures of the quality of the local newspapers’ coverage of these cases. The second part of this chapter examines whether that critical linking mechanism, the media, was able to inform citizens, and whether this piqued their interest in the issues. Differences in how strongly the residents of the geographic communities feel about the issue are important since the consensus of research on political attitudes suggests that people who hold strong attitudes are less likely to be persuaded, even by the Supreme Court.

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