Confirmation Politics and the Legitimacy of the U.S. Supreme Court:
Institutional Loyalty, Positivity Bias, and the Alito Nomination
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James L. Gibson
Sidney W. Souers Professor of Government
Professor of African and African American Studies
Department of Political Science
Director, Program on Citizenship and Democratic Values
Weidenbaum Center on the Economy, Government, and Public Policy
Washington University in St. Louis
Campus Box 1063, 219 Eliot Hall
St. Louis, MO 63130-4899
United States
Fellow, Centre for Comparative and International Politics
Professor Extraordinary in Political Science
Stellenbosch University (South Africa)
Gregory A. Caldeira
Distinguished University Professor
Dreher Chair in Political Communications and Policy Thinking
Professor of Law
Ohio State University
2022 Derby Hall
Columbus, Ohio 43210-1373
United States
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