A Countermajoritarian Institution in the Public Mind: Judicial Legitimacy of Constitutional Courts in the United States and Germany

• In Event: Public Opinion about Democracy, Citizens, Leaders, and the Courts

Brief Overview

Focusing the role of courts as countermajoritarian institutions, we argue that citizens’ status as members of the political majority or minority moderate the impact of ideological distance to the court on judicial legitimacy.

Author

• Hyeonho Hahm, University of Mannheim