Judicial elections in the 21st Century / Chris W. Bonneau and Melinda Gann Hall -- The changing legal landscape of judicial elections / Charles Gardner Geyh and Katherine Thrapp -- Contestation and competitiveness in state Supreme Court elections, 1946-2015 : a state-level analysis / Herbert M. Kritzer -- Campaigning for the high court bench / Melinda Gann Hall and Matthew J. Zalewski -- Fundraising and spending in state Supreme Court elections / Chris W. Bonneau -- Judicial retention elections / Larry T. Aspin -- The latest trends in intermediate appellate court elections / Matthew J. Streb, Brian Frederick, Casey LaFrance, and Kimberly Rice -- Trial court campaign messaging in a post-White environment : an analysis of candidate websites in contested elections / Mark Jonathan McKenzie and Ryan J. Rebe -- Do judicial performance evaluations influence retention election results? / Rebecca D. Gill -- Measuring the impact of election outcomes on voting in state Supreme Courts / Lawrence Baum, Thomas R. Gray, and David E. Klein -- Judicial elections and support for state courts / Michael J. Nelson -- Elections and judicial diversity / Drew Noble Lanier and Mark S. Hurwitz -- Proposals for reforms : successes and failures / Chris W. Bonneau and Jenna Becker Kane -- Toward a more sophistiicated understanding of contemporary judicial elections / Melinda Gann Hall and Chris W. Bonneau.
Summary:
"Starting with recent transformations in the electoral landscape, including those brought about by U.S. Supreme Court rulings, this volume provides...analyses of partisan, nonpartisan, and retention elections to state supreme courts, intermediate appellate courts, and trial courts. Topics include citizen participation, electoral competition, fundraising and spending, judicial performance evaluations, reform efforts, attack campaigns, and other organized efforts to oust judges. This volume also evaluates the impact of judicial elections on numerous aspects of American politics, including citizens' perceptions of judicial legitimacy, diversity on the bench, and the consequences of who wins on subsequent court decisions. Many of the chapters offer predictions about how judicial elections might look in the future."-- Provided by publisher.
This resource is supported by the Institute of Museum and Library Services under the provisions of the Library Services and Technology Act as administered by State Library of Iowa.