Concerns about unaccountable executive power have featured recurrently in political
debates from the American founding to today. For many, presidents' use of unilateral power …

We develop and assess an account of ideological asymmetries in public support for the
Supreme Court. We find that specific support for the Supreme Court is more strongly …

Judicial nominations, particularly those to the Supreme Court, have been a salient topic in
recent presidential and senate elections. However, there has been little research to …

Can governments make courts politically compliant without undermining public confidence
in the judicial system? Many studies show a positive relationship between judicial …

In examining public evaluations of governing institutions, are job approval and legitimacy
related? This question has dominated scholarship on Supreme Court legitimacy for …

How do constituents respond to the president's policy decisions? Theories of democratic
accountability posit that voters elect officeholders to advance their policy preferences and …

Two findings stand out in the literature on public attitudes vis-à-vis courts. The first is that
judicial independence increases public trust. The second is that 'to know courts is to love …

New evidence suggests that the world recently changed for the US Supreme Court owing to
its decision to abrogate the abortion rights first announced in Roe v. Wade. In contrast to the …

Although, in many countries, the military is the most trusted state institution, we know little
about public trust in the military outside the United States. We argue that, for the military, trust …

Objective: Determining the existence of a relationship between judicial performance and
citizens' trust in the legal system. Method: Cross‐classified multilevel models, using data …