Trust in the Courts: Replication Data and Source Code for Hemrajani

Rahul Hemrajani developed this replication package for the Political Research Quarterly article "Trust in the (measures of legitimacy of) Courts" in 2026. The dataset contains the source code and empirical data required to reproduce the study's statistical results, tables, and figures regarding judicial legitimacy.

Use Cases

• Replicating the statistical tables and figures from the Hemrajani paper
• Evaluating the validity of the measures of court legitimacy used in the study
• Analyzing the source code to understand the computational methods for judicial trust metrics

Strengths

• Includes original source code for full computational reproducibility
• Peer-reviewed origin from Political Research Quarterly
• Provides specific empirical measures for judicial legitimacy

Limitations

• Unknown sample size and record count due to lack of metadata in the source description
• Specific column definitions are not provided in the summary

Provenance

Source

Rahul Hemrajani, Political Research Quarterly

Freshness

Last updated March 2026.