No Shelter in Unanimity: The Limits of Consensus for Supreme Court Legitimacy
Published online on June 04, 2026
Abstract
Political Research Quarterly, Ahead of Print.
Supreme Court justices sometimes strategically use unanimity in an attempt to bolster the legitimacy of a court ruling and of the court itself. Do unanimous court rulings promote legitimacy? We pair evidence from three experiments based on real Supreme ...
Supreme Court justices sometimes strategically use unanimity in an attempt to bolster the legitimacy of a court ruling and of the court itself. Do unanimous court rulings promote legitimacy? We pair evidence from three experiments based on real Supreme ...