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Regulating Judicial Elections : Assessing State Codes of Judicial Conduct.

State judicial elections are governed by a unique set of rules that enforce longstanding norms of judicial independence by limiting how judicial candidates campaign. These rules have been a key part of recent debates over judicial elections and have been the subject of several U.S. Supreme Court cas...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Peters, C. Scott
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Taylor and Francis, 2017.
Edición:1.
Colección:Law, Courts and Politics
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
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  • Cover; Title; Copyright; Dedication; CONTENTS; List of Figures; List of Tables; Acknowledgments; 1 Campaigning for Justice; 2 Independence and Accountability: The Two-Sided Coin Protecting the Rule of Law; 3 The Code of Judicial Conduct and Its Adoption by the States; 4 The Canons of Ethics and Candidate Advertising; 5 The Canons of Ethics and Interest Group Advertising; 6 Protecting Independence or Protecting Incumbents?; 7 Conclusion: Toward a Framework for Regulating Judicial Elections; References; Appendix: Data Sources and Collection; Index.