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71
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World Ranking
50
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28

Research.com Recognitions

  • 2023 - Research.com Political Science in United States Leader Award
  • 1989 - Heinz I. Eulau Award, American Political Science Association (APSA)

Overview

James L. Gibson is affiliated with Washington University in St. Louis in the United States. Their research focuses primarily on social sciences, with particular attention to political science and international relations, law, sociology and political science, economics and econometrics, and gender studies.

Their work has been published extensively across various academic venues, most frequently in the following:

  • SSRN Electronic Journal
  • Harvard Dataverse
  • Political Science Quarterly
  • Political Research Quarterly
  • Journal of Law and Courts

Gibson's research covers a range of topics, including:

  • Judicial and Constitutional Studies
  • American Constitutional Law and Politics
  • Legal and Constitutional Studies
  • Policing Practices and Perceptions
  • Electoral Systems and Political Participation
  • Social Media and Politics
  • Law, Rights, and Freedoms

Recent papers authored by Gibson include:

  • "Judging Inequality: State Supreme Courts and the Inequality Crisis", 2022, Political Science Quarterly
  • "Losing legitimacy: The challenges of the Dobbs ruling to conventional legitimacy theory", 2024, American Journal of Political Science
  • "Keeping Your Mouth Shut: Spiraling Self-Censorship in the United States", 2023, Political Science Quarterly
  • "Keeping Your Mouth Shut: Spiraling Self-Censorship in the United States", 2020, SSRN Electronic Journal

The scholar has collaborated frequently with the following co-authors:

  • Michael J. Nelson
  • Joseph L. Sutherland
  • Jurek Brzeski
  • David Adams

Gibson's book publications are associated with the Russell Sage Foundation and include:

  • "Judging Inequality", 2021
  • "Democracy's Destruction? The 2020 Election, Trump's Insurrection, and the Strength of America's Political Institutions", 2023
  • "Democracy's Destruction? The 2020 Election, Trump's Insurrection, and the Strength of America's Political Institutions", 2024

In recognition of their scholarly contributions, Gibson received the Heinz I. Eulau Award from the American Political Science Association in 1989.

Best Publications

  • On the Legitimacy of National High Courts

    James L. Gibson;Gregory A. Caldeira;Vanessa A. Baird

  • Overcoming Apartheid: Can Truth Reconcile a Divided Nation?

    James L. Gibson

  • The Etiology of Public Support for the Supreme Court

    Gregory A. Caldeira;James L. Gibson

  • Social networks, civil society, and the prospects for consolidating Russia’s democratic transition

    James L. Gibson

  • Democratic Values and the Transformation of the Soviet Union

    James L. Gibson;Raymond M. Duch;Kent L. Tedin

  • Measuring Attitudes toward the United States Supreme Court

    James L. Gibson;Gregory A. Caldeira;Lester Kenyatta Spence

  • Understandings of justice: Institutional legitimacy, procedural justice, and political tolerance.

    James L. Gibson

  • Overcoming Intolerance in South Africa: Experiments in Democratic Persuasion

    James L. Gibson;Amanda Gouws

  • The Supreme Court and the US Presidential Election of 2000: Wounds, Self-Inflicted or Otherwise?

    James L. Gibson;Gregory A. Caldeira;Lester Kenyatta Spence

  • Why Do People Accept Public Policies They Oppose? Testing Legitimacy Theory with a Survey-Based Experiment

    James L. Gibson;Gregory A. Caldeira;Lester Kenyatta Spence

  • Citizens, Courts, and Confirmations

    James L. Gibson;Gregory A. Caldeira

  • The Legitimacy of the Court of Justice in the European Union: Models of Institutional Support

    Gregory A. Caldeira;James L. Gibson

  • Judges' Role Orientations, Attitudes, and Decisions: An Interactive Model*

    James L. Gibson

  • Does Truth Lead to Reconciliation? Testing the Causal Assumptions of the South African Truth and Reconciliation Process

    James L. Gibson

  • Citizens, Courts, and Confirmations: Positivity Theory and the Judgments of the American People

    James L. Gibson;Gregory A. Caldeira

  • The Legitimacy of Transnational Legal Institutions: Compliance, Support, and the European Court of Justice

    James L. Gibson;Gregory A. Caldeira

  • Enigmas of Intolerance: Fifty Years after Stouffer's Communism, Conformity, and Civil Liberties

    James L. Gibson

  • The Contributions of Truth to Reconciliation: Lessons From South Africa

    James L. Gibson

  • Truth, Justice, and Reconciliation: Judging the Fairness of Amnesty in South Africa

    James L. Gibson

  • The Political Consequences of Intolerance: Cultural Conformity and Political Freedom.

    James L. Gibson

  • The Legal Cultures of Europe

    James L. Gibson;Gregory A. Caldeira

  • Alternative Measures of Political Tolerance: Must Tolerance Be "Least-Liked" ?*

    James L. Gibson

  • Knowing the Supreme Court? A Reconsideration of Public Ignorance of the High Court

    James L. Gibson;Gregory A. Caldeira

Frequent Co-Authors

Gregory A. Caldeira
Gregory A. Caldeira The Ohio State University
Raymond M. Duch
Raymond M. Duch University of Oxford
Milton Lodge
Milton Lodge Stony Brook University
Kathleen Hall Jamieson
Kathleen Hall Jamieson University of Pennsylvania
Joop T. V. M. de Jong
Joop T. V. M. de Jong University of Amsterdam
Lee Epstein
Lee Epstein Washington University in St. Louis
Scott M. Gallager
Scott M. Gallager Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution
Charles H. Greene
Charles H. Greene Cornell University
Nigel P. Field
Nigel P. Field Palo Alto University
Deborah J. Cook
Deborah J. Cook McMaster University

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