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Research. I study the power of courts in democracies, especially the United States. Courts are uniquely reliant on public support in democracies because they generally cannot renew their support at the ballot box.
James L. Gibson Michael J. Nelson. Washington University in St. Louis Pennsylvania State University. Bartels and Johnston have recently presented evidence suggesting that the legitimacy of the U.S. Supreme Court is grounded in the ideological preferences and perceptions of the American people.
- James L. Gibson, Michael J. Nelson
- 2015
Michael J. Nelson Washington University in St. Louis Pennsylvania State University Bartels and Johnston have recently presented evidence suggesting that the legitimacy of the U.S. Supreme Court is grounded in the ideological preferences and perceptions of the American people. In addition, they offer experimental data purporting
Gibson and Nelson (2017) show that beliefs that the U.S. Supreme Court’s decisionmaking is politicized are much more harmful to the Court than disagreement with the Court’s decisions. Other evidence about the deleterious effects of politicization on institutional support
Michael J. Nelson is Professor of Political Science. He specializes in American politics, state politics, and judicial politics. His research examines the effects of judicial elections, public support for courts and the rule of law in the United States and abroad, and the effects of collegiality on judicial behavior.
MJ Nelson, JL Gibson. Journal of Law and Courts 8 (1), 75-94. , 2020. 22. 2020. Articles 1–20. Pennsylvania State University, Department of Political Science - Cited by 1,631 -...
In Judging Inequality, political scientists James L. Gibson and Michael J. Nelson demonstrate the influential role of the fifty state supreme courts in shaping the widespread inequalities that define America today, focusing on court-made public policy on issues ranging from educational equity and adequacy to LGBT rights to access to justice to ...
