Courses
Law, Politics, and Society; Political Intolerance in World Politics; Contemporary Topics in Social Psychology: Intolerance and Prejudice

Research Interests
Professor Gibson has research interests in most areas of political science, including comparative politics (especially processes of democratization), American politics (including political parties, public opinion, and especially courts and legal processes), and all areas of quantitative research methods (especially survey research). He is currently working on studies of a) the consolidation of democratization in Russia, b) political tolerance, justice, and the initiation of democratic reform in South Africa, c) law, legal values, legal consciousness in Bulgaria, France, Hungary, Poland, Russia, Spain, and the United States, and d) the legitimacy of judicial and legal institutions throughout the world.

Selected Publications:

Gibson, James L. 2004. Overcoming Apartheid: Can Truth Reconcile a Divided Nation? New York: Russell Sage Foundation.

Gibson, James L., and Amanda Gouws. 2003. Overcoming Intolerance in South Africa: Experiments in Democratic Persuasion. New York: Cambridge University Press.

Gibson, James L. 2002. “Truth, Justice, and Reconciliation: Judging the Fairness of Amnesty in South Africa.” American Journal of Political Science 46: (#3, July): 540-556.

Gibson, James L. 1997. United States Supreme Court Judicial Data Base, Phase ll: User's Guide. New
York: Peter Lang, Publishers.

Gibson, James L., and Richard D. Bingham. 1985. Civil Liberties and Nazis: The Skokie Free-Speech
Controversy. New York: Praeger.