Coalition Government and Public Support for Judicial Constraints on Executive Power

• In Event: The Executive and the Judiciary

Brief Overview

We contend that support for judicial power increases as junior party copartisans perceive the senior party as ideologically distant. We find evidence for these expectations using data from Germany and an additional experiment in Austria.

Authors

• Sivaram Cheruvu, Michigan State University

• Jay Krehbiel, University at Buffalo - SUNY