Legitimate authority is the normative power to govern, where a normative power is the ability to change the normative situation of others.…
Nancy Fraser’s path-breaking “Rethinking the Public Sphere” brought the term “subaltern counterpublics” into critical theoretical discourse…
Book abstract: Political trust – in government, parliament, or political parties – has taken centre stage in political science for more…
Judicial nominees to federal courts rarely reveal their genuine views on controversial issues. As a result, political actors – and…
We extend the scaling methodology previously used in Bonica (2014) to jointly scale the American federal judiciary and legal profession in…
The chapter generally seeks to establish and clarify the conceptual framework of political support and, in particular, to specify the…
To understand the role of elections in transitions to democracy the first part of this study describes modernization theories of…