Running for Judge : The Rising Political, Financial, and Legal Stakes of Judicial Elections /
Across the country, races for judgeships are becoming more and more politically contested. As a result, several states and cities are now considering judicial election reform. Running for Judge examines the increasingly contentious judicial elections over the last twenty-five years by providing a ti...
Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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Otros Autores: | , , , , , , , , , , , , , |
Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
Idioma: | Inglés |
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New York, NY :
New York University Press,
[2007]
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Acceso en línea: | Texto completo Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- List of Tables
- List of Figures
- Acknowledgments
- 1 The Study of Judicial Elections
- 2 First Amendment Limits on Regulating Judicial Campaigns
- 3 The Changing Tone of Judicial Election Campaigns as a Result of White
- 4 The Dynamics of Campaign Spending in State Supreme Court Elections
- 5 Interest Group Participation in Judicial Elections
- 6 Partisan Involvement in Partisan and Nonpartisan Trial Court Elections
- 7 Judicial Elections in the News
- 8 Voter Responses to High-Visibility Judicial Campaigns
- 9 Competition as Accountability in State Supreme Court Elections
- 10 Judicial Selection Methods and Capital Punishment in the American States
- 11 Judicial Reform and the Future of Judicial Elections
- Bibliography
- About the Contributors
- Index