Rosalee A. Clawson is Associate Professor of Political Science at Purdue University and the co-author of Public Opinion: Democratic Ideals, Democratic Practice. Eric N. Waltenburg is Associate Professor of Political Science at Purdue University and the author of Choosing Where to Fight: Organized Labor and the Modern Regulatory State, 1948-1987.
Preface
1. Legitimacy and American Democracy
2. Blacks, Civil Rights, and the Supreme Court
3. Establishing the Supreme Court's Legitimizing Capacity
4. Different Presses, Different Frames: Black and Mainstream Press Coverage
of a Supreme Court Decision
5. Media Framing and the Supreme Court's Legitimizing Capacity
6. The Supreme Court's Legitimizing Capacity among African Americans:
Support for Capital Punsihment and Affirmative Action
7. The Casual Relationship between Public Opinion toward the Court and Its
Policies: The University of Michigan Affirmative Action Cases
8. Conclusion
Appendix A: Stimulus for Legitimacy Experiment
Appendix B: List of Black Newspapers
Appendix C: Stimulus for Media Framing Experiment
Appendix D: Question Wording for Media Framing Experiment
Appendix E: Blacks and the U.S. Supreme Court Survey
Notes
Reference
Index
