Legitimacy is a psychological property of an authority, institution, or social arrangement that
leads those connected to it to believe that it is appropriate, proper, and just. Because of …

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 …

We propose that institutions such as the US Supreme Court can lead individuals to update
their perceptions of social norms, in contrast to the mixed evidence on whether institutions …

Legitimacy is a concept meant to capture the beliefs that bolster willing obedience. The
authors model legitimacy as a sense of obligation or willingness to obey authorities (value …

Throughout the world, truth commissions have been (and are being) constructed under the
hope that discovering the 'truth'about a country's past conflicts will somehow contribute to …

Procedural justice generally enhances an authority's legitimacy and encourages people to
comply with an authority's decisions and rules. We argue, however, that previous research …

Conventional political science wisdom holds that contemporary American politics is
characterized by deep and profound partisan and ideological divisions. Unanswered is the …

We use an agency model to analyze the impact of judicial review on the incentives of
elected leaders to “posture” by enacting bold but ill-advised policies. We find that judicial …

When the US Supreme Court announces a decision, reporters simplify and dramatize the
complex legal issues by highlighting dissenting opinions and thus emphasizing conflict …

In Public Opinion: Democratic Ideals, Democratic Practice, Fourth Edition, Clawson and
Oxley link the enduring normative questions of democratic theory to existing empirical …