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| List of Figures and Tables | |
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| Preface | |
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| Introduction: The Public and Supreme Court Nominations | |
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| Changes in Attitudes toward Judicial Institutions | |
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| The Theory of Positivity Bias | |
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| Outlining the Chapters That Follow | |
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| Knowing about Courts | |
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| Assessing Public Information about Law and Courts | |
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| Empirical Evidence of Mass Ignorance | |
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| Discussion and Concluding Comments | |
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| Appendix 2.A: Survey Design, The 2001 Survey | |
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| The Popular Legitimacy of the United States Supreme Court | |
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| Theories of Institutional Legitimacy | |
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| Measuring Institutional Legitimacy | |
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| Accounting for Individual-Level Variability in Institutional Loyalty | |
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| Discussion | |
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| Institutional Loyalty, Positivity Bias, and the Alito Nomination | |
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| The Confirmation of Samuel Alito to the Supreme Court | |
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| The Positivity Theory Hypotheses | |
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| Assessments of the Confirmation Process | |
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| The Models | |
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| Determinants of Confirmation Preferences | |
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| Discussion and Concluding Comments | |
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| A Dynamic Test of the Positivity Bias Hypothesis | |
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| Applying the Theory of Positivity Bias to Confirmations | |
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| Measuring Change in Attitudes toward the U.S. Supreme Court | |
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| The Model of Change in Institutional Support | |
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| Findings | |
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| Discussion and Concluding Comments | |
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| Concluding Thoughts, Theory, and Policy | |
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| Caveats, Puzzles, and Questions | |
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| Survey Design: The 2005 Survey | |
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| The Representativeness of the Panel Sample | |
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| The Supreme Court and the U.S. Presidential Election of 2000: Wounds, Self-Inflicted or Otherwise? | |
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| The Theory of Institutional Legitimacy | |
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| Institutional Loyalty in the Aftermath of the Election | |
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| Views of the Court's Opinion in Bush v. Gore | |
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| Discussion and Concluding Comments | |
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| Survey Design | |
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| Measurement | |
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| References | |
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| Index | |