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James L. Gibson

Researcher at Washington University in St. Louis

Publications -  187
Citations -  15314

James L. Gibson is an academic researcher from Washington University in St. Louis. The author has contributed to research in topics: Politics & Legitimacy. The author has an hindex of 62, co-authored 182 publications receiving 14383 citations. Previous affiliations of James L. Gibson include University of Wisconsin–Milwaukee & University of Houston.

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On the Legitimacy of National High Courts

TL;DR: This paper examined theories of diffuse support and institutional legitimacy by testing hypotheses about the interrelationships among the salience of courts, satisfaction with court outputs, and diffuse support for national high courts.
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The Etiology of Public Support for the Supreme Court

TL;DR: In this article, the authors examined the levels, sources, and explanations of public support for the Supreme Court and found that political values do an uncommonly good job of predicting attitudes toward the Court.
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Democratic Values and the Transformation of the Soviet Union

TL;DR: For example, this article found significant levels of endorsement of competitive elections and for many democratic rights and liberties such as liberty and the norms of democracy in the Moscow Oblast of the USSR, and the best predictor of attitudes toward general democratic values were education, gender, and age.
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Measuring Attitudes toward the United States Supreme Court

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors investigate the validity of a survey question asking about confidence in the leaders of the U.S. Supreme Court to indicate something about the esteem with which that institution is regarded by the American people.