Stability and Change in Support for the European Court of Justice

9311397吉布森这个项目解决了欧洲法院的稳定性和群众支持的变化问题。 了解法律的机构如何自我维持对民主国家的社会稳定十分重要。 大多数法院都无法利用强大的选举合法化进程，而与此同时，它们往往被指控作出与多数人（有时是慷慨激昂的）的偏好相反的决定。 为什么公民要服从法院不受欢迎的判决？ 在缺乏机构合法性的情况下，遵守本身就是一个有问题的问题。 在欧洲法院等新兴跨国法律的机构的背景下，这些合法性和合规问题具有更广泛的重要性。 欧洲法院是欧洲共同体的最高法院，已成为欧洲最强大的司法机构，也是促进欧洲一体化最有效的单一机构。 鉴于其日益突出和有争议的决定，重要的是要问这个法院是如何获得政治合法性的，以及欧洲个人接受其决定的意愿如何。 该项目调查合法性与合规性之间的联系，重点是欧洲法院。 它特别关注大众对最高法院态度的变化，这些态度是如何形成、演变并最终影响大众接受最高法院裁决的意愿的。 将通过对一组答复者（欧洲共同体七个成员国中每个国家300人）进行调查来收集数据。 这些项目有望对合法化过程以及合法性如何影响遵守的科学理解做出重大贡献。 ***

9311397 GIBSON This project addresses questions of stability and change in mass support for the European Court of Justice. It is important for social stability in democracies to know how legal institutions sustain themselves. Most courts have no access to the powerful legitimizing process of elections, while at the same time they are often charged with making decisions contrary to the preferences of (sometimes impassioned) majorities. Why do citizens comply with unpopular decisions of courts? In the absence of stores of institutional legitimacy, compliance itself is a problematic question. These problems of legitimacy and compliance assume even broader importance in the context of emerging transnational legal institutions like the European Court of Justice. The European Court of Justice, the high court of the European Community, has become the most powerful judicial institution in Europe and has been the single institution most effective at promoting the integration of Europe. In light of its increasingly salient and controversial decisions, it is important to ask how this court is acquiring political legitimacy and how willing are individual Europeans to accept its decisions. This project investigates the connections between legitimacy and compliance, focusing on the European Court of Justice. It focuses in particular on change in mass attitudes toward the Court, on how these attitudes are formed, evolve and ultimately affect popular willingness to accept Court decisions. The data collection will be by survey of a panel of respondents (300 in each of seven countries that are members of the European Community). The projects promises to make a significant contribution to the scientific understanding of legitimation processes and how legitimacy affects compliance. ***