{"product_id":"citizens-courts-and-confirmations-positivity-theory-and-the-judgments-of-the-american-people-9780691139883","title":"Citizens Courts and Confirmations  Positivity","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eOver the years the American public has witnessed several hard-fought battles over nominees to the US Supreme Court. This book examines one such fight to discover how and why people formed opinions about the nominee, and to determine how the confirmation process shaped perceptions of the Supreme Court's legitimacy.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"Citizens, Courts, and Confirmations is a significant contribution to the literature on judicial politics. Its findings are interesting and unique, and it provides a number of insights likely to prompt further studies of courts and the citizenry... Any scholar or citizen interested in the interrelations of courts and public opinion should read Citizens, Courts, and Confirmations, and it will surely find its way on to the syllabi of numerous graduate courses on judicial politics.\"--Richard L. Vining, Law and Politics Book Review \"As a piece of research, Citizens is everything court scholars have come to expect from these two authors: its innovative methodology and provocative findings contribute significantly to the literature on public opinion and the judiciary... Like any good study, Citizens both advances the literature and serves as an impetus for future work.\"--Nicholas LaRowe, Journal of Politics \"I found this book to be an excellent example of cutting edge research that can be highly useful in the classroom. [This book is an] excellent example of the best of current judicial politics research.\"--Mark C. Miller, Political Psychology\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eList of Figures and Tables ix  Preface xi      CHAPTER ONE: Introduction: The Public and Supreme Court Nominations 1  Changes in Attitudes toward Judicial Institutions 4  The Theory of Positivity Bias 7  Outlining the Chapters That Follow 14      CHAPTER TWO: Knowing about Courts 17  Assessing Public Information about Law and Courts 19  Empirical Evidence of Mass Ignorance 20  Discussion and Concluding Comments 34  Appendix 2.A: Survey Design, The 2001 Survey 35      CHAPTER THREE: The Popular Legitimacy of the United States Supreme Court 36  Theories of Institutional Legitimacy 38  Measuring Institutional Legitimacy 44  Accounting for Individual-Level Variability in Institutional Loyalty 49  Discussion 61      CHAPTER FOUR: Institutional Loyalty, Positivity Bias, and the Alito Nomination 63  The Confirmation of Samuel Alito to the Supreme Court 66  The Positivity Theory Hypotheses 69  Assessments of the Confirmation Process 71  The Models 72  Determinants of Confirmation Preferences 85  Discussion and Concluding Comments 93      CHAPTER FIVE: A Dynamic Test of the Positivity Bias Hypothesis 96  Applying the Theory of Positivity Bias to Confirmations 97  Measuring Change in Attitudes toward the U.S. Supreme Court 98  The Model of Change in Institutional Support 103  Findings 110  Discussion and Concluding Comments 119  CHAPTER SIX: Concluding Thoughts, Theory, and Policy 121  Caveats, Puzzles, and Questions 125      APPENDIX A: Survey Design: The 2005 Survey 129  APPENDIX B: The Representativeness of the Panel Sample 131  APPENDIX C: The Supreme Court and the U.S. Presidential Election of 2000: Wounds, Self-Inflicted or Otherwise? 133  James L. Gibson, Gregory A. Caldeira, and Lester Kenyatta Spence The Theory of Institutional Legitimacy 135  Institutional Loyalty in the Aftermath of the Election 139  Views of the Court's Opinion in Bush v. Gore 144  Discussion and Concluding Comments 156  Appendix C.1: Survey Design 158  Appendix C.2: Measurement 159      References 163  Index 175","brand":"Princeton University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49403765621079,"sku":"9780691139883","price":31.5,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9780691139883.jpg?v=1730484477","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/citizens-courts-and-confirmations-positivity-theory-and-the-judgments-of-the-american-people-9780691139883","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}