The people's courts : pursuing judicial independence in America /

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In the United States, almost 90 percent of state judges have to run in popular elections to remain on the bench. In the past decade, this peculiarly American institution has produced vicious multi-million-dollar political election campaigns and high-profile allegations of judicial bias and misconduc...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Shugerman, Jed Handelsman, 1974-
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Cambridge, Mass. : Harvard University Press, 2012.
Temas:
Judges > United States > States > Election > History.
Judicial independence > United States > History.
Indépendance judiciaire > États-Unis > Histoire.
LAW > Civil Procedure.
LAW > Legal Services.
POLITICAL SCIENCE > Government > Judicial Branch.
POLITICAL SCIENCE > American Government > Judicial Branch.
Judges > U.S. states > Election.
Judicial independence.
United States.
History.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Declaring judicial independence
  • Judicial elections as separation of powers
  • The calm before the storm
  • Panic and trigger
  • The American revolutions of 1848
  • The boom of judicial review
  • Reconstructing independence
  • The progressives' failed solutions
  • Earl Warren, crime, and the revival of appointment
  • The Missouri plan
  • Exporting judicial elections
  • The puzzling rise of merit
  • Merit's stumble and surge, 1960s-70s
  • Judicial plutocracy from 1980 to the present.

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