The Effect of Terrorism on Judicial Confidence

Datos Bibliográficos

ID12419782
AutoresSteven V Miller (0000-0003-4072-6263, Clemson University, SC, USA, autor de correspondencia)
Año2017
Volumen70
Número4
Páginas790-802
Fecha de publicación2017-06-28
Peer ReviewedSí
Open AccessSí
TipoARTICLE
RevistaPolitical Research Quarterly (JOURNAL)
Identificadores de la revistaISSN: 1065-9129 • E-ISSN: 1938-274X
EditorialSAGE Publishing (PUBLISHER • US)
DOI10.1177/1065912917716337
OpenAlexW2727217136
IdiomaEN
Referencias citadas39

Independent judiciaries prevent democratic reversals, facilitate peaceful transitions of power, and legitimate democracy among citizens. We believe this judicial independence is important for citizen-level judicial confidence and faith in democratic institutions. I challenge this and argue that citizens living under terror threats lose confidence in their independent judiciaries. Terror threats lead citizens to enable the state leader to provide counterterrorism for their security, which has important implications for interbranch relations between the executive and the judiciary. Citizens lose confidence in independent judiciaries that provide due process for suspected terrorists. I test my argument with mixed effects models that incorporate the Global Terrorism Database and four waves of European Values Survey. The analyses demonstrate the negative effects of terror threats on judicial confidence when interacting terror threats with measures of judicial independence. My findings have important implications for the study of democratic confidence and the liberty-security dilemma

Argument (complex analysis · Democracy · Dilemma · Independence (probability theory · Judicial Independence · Law and economics · Political science · Politics · Power (physics · Sociology · State (computer science · Supreme court · Terrorism · Judicial and Constitutional Studies · Law · Political Conflict and Governance · Terrorism, Counterterrorism, and Political Violence