Conventional wisdom says that individuals' ideological preferences do not influence
Supreme Court legitimacy orientations. Most work is based on the assumption that the …

The 2012 challenge to the Affordable Care Act was an unusual opportunity for people to
form or reassess opinions about the Supreme Court. We utilize panel data coupled with as‐if …

How do Americans evaluate potential US Supreme Court candidates? Using a novel, two-
part conjoint experiment, I show that respondents put high importance on the political …

When citizens believe the US Supreme Court makes decisions in an insincere or politicized
manner, their specific support for the institution can decline. The Court's relative aversion to …

This book is the first study specifically to investigate the extent to which US Supreme Court
justices alter the clarity of their opinions based on expected reactions from their audiences …

We examine whether public opinion leads Supreme Court justices to alter the content of
their opinions. We argue that when justices anticipate public opposition to their decisions …

This study examines how government budget information affects citizen's satisfaction with
the budgeting process, their trust in government, and their perceptions of public service …

Since 2013 judicial reforms in China have intensified. While recent studies of the Chinese
judiciary have focused on structural reforms concerning the jurisdiction of courts and internal …

Awareness of courts has long been theorized to engender enhanced support for judicial
independence, but this is a logic that works only under the best of circumstances. We argue …

This paper introduces a new perspective into the literature on judicial legitimacy by
examining the incentives for courts to cater to a popular majority and offering a novel model …