Stability and Change in Support for the European Court of Justice

9312689 CALDEIRA该项目解决了欧洲法院的稳定和变化问题。对于民主国家的社会稳定来说，了解法律制度如何自我维持是很重要的。大多数法院无法进入强大的选举合法化过程，而与此同时，它们往往被指控做出与多数人（有时是充满激情的）偏好相反的决定。为什么公民会遵从法院不受欢迎的判决？在缺乏制度合法性的情况下，合规本身就是一个有问题的问题。在欧洲法院等新兴跨国法律机构的背景下，这些合法性和遵从性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，它已成为欧洲最有权力的司法机构，也是在促进欧洲一体化方面最有效的单一机构。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，以及欧洲个人有多愿意接受它的决定。该项目调查合法性和合规性之间的联系，重点是欧洲法院。它特别关注大众对法院态度的变化，这些态度是如何形成、演变和最终影响大众接受法院判决的意愿的。数据收集将通过对一组受访者（欧洲共同体7个成员国各300人）进行调查来完成。这些项目有望对科学理解合法化过程以及合法性如何影响遵守作出重大贡献。＊＊＊

9312689 CALDEIRA 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. ***