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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2007.
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Table of 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 States11 Judicial Reform and the Future of Judicial Elections; Bibliography; About the Contributors; Index.