Replication Data for: Can Democratic Principles Protect High Courts from Partisan Backlash? Public Reactions to the Kenyan Supreme Court’s Role in the 2017 Election Crisis
<|begin_of_text|><|start_header_id|>system<|end_header_id|> You are a research archivist expert in dataset metadata. Answer the question truthfully.  <|eot_id|><|start_header_id|>user<|end_header_id|> Here is the Description of a dataset. Description:'Public support is central to the emergence of judicial power. Conventional wisdom holds that citizen commitment to democracy and the rule of law sustains this support. An implication is that such commitments should protect courts from partisan backlash following contentious rulings. But this remains largely untested. The Kenyan Supreme Court’s historic 2017 elections rulings provide an unusual opportunity to test this expectation. After annulling the incumbent president’s victory, the Court upheld his controversial repeat-election win. With data from a national panel survey—conducted before and after the repeat election—we find important partisan-based withdrawals/increases in judicial-power support. There is no evidence that democratic principles attenuated partisan backlash; some were associated with its amplification. However, partisa' . Please return only a json list of at most 3 Keywords corresponding to the Description:.<|eot_id|><|start_header_id|>assistant<|end_header_id|> {"Answer" : ["Authoritarianism","Courts","Democracy","Democratic principles","Election crisis","Partisan backlash","Public opinion","Public support for judicial power","Supreme courts"]} <|eot_id|>
 Here is the Description of a dataset. Description:'Public support is central to the emergence of judicial power. Conventional wisdom holds that citizen commitment to democracy and the rule of law sustains this support. An implication is that such commitments should protect courts from partisan backlash following contentious rulings. But this remains largely untested. The Kenyan Supreme Court’s historic 2017 elections rulings provide an unusual opportunity to test this expectation. After annulling the incumbent president’s victory, the Court upheld his controversial repeat-election win. With data from a national panel survey—conducted before and after the repeat election—we find important partisan-based withdrawals/increases in judicial-power support. There is no evidence that democratic principles attenuated partisan backlash; some were associated with its amplification. However, partisa' . Please return only a json list of at most 3 Keywords corresponding to the Description:.
Public support is central to the emergence of judicial power. Conventional wisdom holds that citizen commitment to democracy and the rule of law sustains this support. An implication is that such commitments should protect courts from partisan backlash following contentious rulings. But this remains largely untested. The Kenyan Supreme Court’s historic 2017 elections rulings provide an unusual opportunity to test this expectation. After annulling the incumbent president’s victory, the Court upheld his controversial repeat-election win. With data from a national panel survey—conducted before and after the repeat election—we find important partisan-based withdrawals/increases in judicial-power support. There is no evidence that democratic principles attenuated partisan backlash; some were associated with its amplification. However, partisa
Authoritarianism; Courts; Democracy; Democratic principles; Election crisis; Partisan backlash; Public opinion; Public support for judicial power; Supreme courts