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Replication data for: Is the U.S. Supreme Court's Legitimacy Grounded in Performance Satisfaction and Ideology?

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Title Replication data for: Is the U.S. Supreme Court's Legitimacy Grounded in Performance Satisfaction and Ideology?
 
Identifier https://doi.org/10.7910/DVN/24387
 
Creator Gibson, James
Nelson, Michael
 
Publisher Harvard Dataverse
 
Description Bartels and Johnston have recently presented evidence suggesting that the legitimacy of the U.S. Supreme Court is grounded in the ideological preferences and perceptions of the American people. In addition, they offer experimental data purporting to show that dissatisfaction with a single Court decision substantially diminishes the institution’s legitimacy. These findings strongly break with earlier research on the Court’s institutional support, as the authors recognize. The theoretical implications of their findings are profound. If the authors are correct that legitimacy is strongly dependent upon satisfying the policy preferences and ideological predilections of the American people, the essence of legitimacy is fundamentally transformed. Consequently, we re-investigate the relationships among ideology, performance satisfaction, and Court legitimacy, unearthing empirical findings that diverge markedly from theirs. We conclude with some thoughts about how the Court’s "countermajoritarian dilemma" can be reconceptualized and recalculated, once mor
e drawing conclusions sharply at odds with those of Bartels and Johnston.
 
Subject Social Sciences
Constitutional courts
Public opinion
Diffuse support
Government legitimacy
Performance satisfaction
 
Contributor Michael J Nelson