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Limits of Legitimacy

Michael A. Zilis
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      When the U.S. Supreme Court announces a decision, reporters simplify and dramatize the complex legal issues by highlighting dissenting opinions and thus emphasizing conflict among the justices themselves. This often sensationalistic coverage fosters public controversy over specific rulings, despite polls which show that Americans strongly believe in the Court’s legitimacy as an institution. In The Limits of Legitimacy, Michael A. Zilis illuminates this link between case law and public opinion. Drawing on a diverse array of sources and methods, he employs case studies of eminent domain decisions, analysis of survey data and media reporting, an experiment to test how volunteers respond to media messages, and finally the natural experiment of the controversy over the Affordable Care Act, popularly known as Obamacare.Zilis finds, first, that the media tends not to quote from majority opinions. However, the greater the division over a particular ruling among the justices themselves, the greater the likelihood that the media will criticize that ruling, characterize it as activist, and employ inflammatory rhetoric. Zilis then demonstrates that the media’s portrayal of a decision, as much as the substance of the decision itself, influences citizens’ reactions to and acceptance of it.This meticulously constructed study and its persuasively argued conclusion advance the understanding of the media, judicial politics, political institutions, and political behavior.
      Format: CONTRIBUTORS: Michael A. Zilis EAN: 9780472052745 COUNTRY: United States PAGES: WEIGHT: 396 g HEIGHT: 229 cm
      PUBLISHED BY: The University of Michigan Press DATE PUBLISHED: 2015-09-22 CITY: GENRE: POLITICAL SCIENCE / American Government / Judicial Branch WIDTH: 152 cm SPINE:

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      Politics and government, Constitutional and administrative law: general

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      Michael A. Zilis is Assistant Professor of Political Science at the University of Kentucky, USA.
      When the U.S. Supreme Court announces a decision, reporters simplify and dramatize the complex legal issues by highlighting dissenting opinions and thus emphasizing conflict among the justices themselves. This often sensationalistic coverage fosters public controversy over specific rulings, despite polls which show that Americans strongly believe in the Court’s legitimacy as an institution. In The Limits of Legitimacy, Michael A. Zilis illuminates this link between case law and public opinion. Drawing on a diverse array of sources and methods, he employs case studies of eminent domain decisions, analysis of survey data and media reporting, an experiment to test how volunteers respond to media messages, and finally the natural experiment of the controversy over the Affordable Care Act, popularly known as Obamacare.Zilis finds, first, that the media tends not to quote from majority opinions. However, the greater the division over a particular ruling among the justices themselves, the greater the likelihood that the media will criticize that ruling, characterize it as activist, and employ inflammatory rhetoric. Zilis then demonstrates that the media’s portrayal of a decision, as much as the substance of the decision itself, influences citizens’ reactions to and acceptance of it.This meticulously constructed study and its persuasively argued conclusion advance the understanding of the media, judicial politics, political institutions, and political behavior.
      Format: CONTRIBUTORS: Michael A. Zilis EAN: 9780472052745 COUNTRY: United States PAGES: WEIGHT: 396 g HEIGHT: 229 cm
      PUBLISHED BY: The University of Michigan Press DATE PUBLISHED: 2015-09-22 CITY: GENRE: POLITICAL SCIENCE / American Government / Judicial Branch WIDTH: 152 cm SPINE:

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      Politics and government, Constitutional and administrative law: general

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      Michael A. Zilis is Assistant Professor of Political Science at the University of Kentucky, USA.

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