Can Preliminary References affect Public Acceptance of Court Decisions?

• In Event: The Public, Legitimacy, and Comparative Courts

Brief Overview

We conducted a survey experiment in which over 3000 German respondents were given a vignette of a recent decision involving European Union law with randomized treatments for the source of the decision and whether a preliminary reference was used.

Authors

• Sivaram Cheruvu, Emory University

• Jay Krehbiel, West Virginia University