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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...

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Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Otros Autores: Baum, Lawrence (Contribuidor), Bonneau, Chris W. (Contribuidor), Boyea, Brent D. (Contribuidor), Brace, Paul (Contribuidor), Caufield, Rachel P. (Contribuidor), Frederick, Brian (Contribuidor), Gann Hall, Melinda (Contribuidor), Goldberg, Deborah (Contribuidor), Hasen, Richard L. (Contribuidor), Klein, David (Contribuidor), Schaffner, Brian F. (Contribuidor), Segal Diascro, Jennifer (Contribuidor), Streb, Matthew J (Contribuidor), Streb, Matthew J. (Contribuidor, Editor )
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: New York, NY : New York University Press, [2007]
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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