This article reviews recent survey-based research on citizens' trust in government, focusing
particularly on the United States. It addresses the long-term decline in trust and potential …

The academic indictment of textualism was almost in. Although textualism has in recent
decades gained considerable prominence within the federal judiciary, 1 legal scholars …

Research on the legitimacy of the US Supreme Court has blossomed of late, with scholars
investigating many different hypotheses derived from legitimacy theory. As the theory has …

Legitimacy is a complex and puzzling concept. But in legal discourse, we have an intuitive
sense that illegitimate means something more than erroneous or incorrect. The term …

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 …

Has the US Supreme Court become more conservative than the public? We introduce
results of three surveys conducted over the course of a decade that ask respondents about …

Bartels and Johnston have recently presented evidence suggesting that the legitimacy of the
US Supreme Court is grounded in the ideological preferences and perceptions of the …

Firms use algorithms to make important business decisions. To date, the algorithmic
accountability literature has elided a fundamentally empirical question important to business …

How is it that the US Supreme Court is capable of getting most citizens to accept rulings with
which they disagree? This analysis addresses the role of the symbols of judicial authority …

Previous research focused on popular US Supreme Court rulings expanding rights;
however, less is known about rulings running against prevailing public opinion and …