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OverviewThe first comprehensive examination of Black Americans Full Product DetailsAuthor: Rosalee Clawson , Eric WaltenburgPublisher: Temple University Press,U.S. Imprint: Temple University Press,U.S. Dimensions: Width: 14.00cm , Height: 2.00cm , Length: 21.00cm Weight: 0.363kg ISBN: 9781592139026ISBN 10: 1592139027 Pages: 232 Publication Date: 15 December 2008 Audience: Professional and scholarly , Professional & Vocational Format: Hardback Publisher's Status: Active Availability: Awaiting stock  The supplier is currently out of stock of this item. It will be ordered for you and placed on backorder. Once it does come back in stock, we will ship it out for you. Table of ContentsPreface 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 IndexReviews[T]his book should be of interest to scholars and students of the Court, public opinion, and American politics more broadly. Clawson and Waltenburg present a well researched book for scholars and students who wish to know about interactions between the Court and African Americans, the effect of decisions on public opinion, and understand the dynamics of diffuse support for the Court. -The Journal of Politics One of the book's many strengths is its multidimensional approach to answering this core question: Why do African-Americans view the Court, and thus the U.S. regime, as legitimate? The authors provide a cogent, compact summary of Civil Rights history and how blacks' innovative public-interest-law strategy brought litigation to the federal courts... [The] book's experimental, archival and survey data provides a more nuanced portrait of black attitudes toward the Supreme Court. -Perspectives on Politics [T]his book should be of interest to scholars and students of the Court, public opinion, and American politics more broadly. Clawson and Waltenburg present a well researched book for scholars and students who wish to know about interactions between the Court and African Americans, the effect of decisions on public opinion, and understand the dynamics of diffuse support for the Court. - The Journal of Politics, June 2010 Author InformationRosalee 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. Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |
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