Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Legitimacy and American democracy
  • Blacks, civil rights, and the Supreme Court
  • Establishing the Supreme Court's legitimizing capacity
  • Different presses, different frames : black and mainstream press coverage of a Supreme Court decision
  • Media framing and the Supreme Court's legitimizing capacity
  • The Supreme Court's legitimizing capacity among African Americans : support for capital punishment and affirmative action
  • The causal relationship between public opinion toward the court and its politics : the University of Michigan affirmative action cases.