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The Limits of Legitimacy - Dissenting Opinions, Media Coverage, and Public Responses to Supreme Court Decisions (Paperback)
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The Limits of Legitimacy - Dissenting Opinions, Media Coverage, and Public Responses to Supreme Court Decisions (Paperback)
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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.
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