Trust the Process? Citizen Participation, Procedural Legitimacy, and Democratic Decision-Making in Constitutional Change

• In Event: Rights, Rhetoric, and Legitimacy

Brief Overview

This study examines the impact of citizen inclusion in the constitutional amendment process, during both initiation and ratification, on the sociological legitimacy of constitutional change using a survey experiment conducted in the United States.

Author

• Joseph F Cozza, The University of Texas at Austin