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Author : Nicholas P. Lovrich
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 50 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (955 download)
Download or read book Voters in Contested, Non-partisan Judicial Elections written by Nicholas P. Lovrich and published by . This book was released on 1982* with total page 50 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Chris W. Bonneau
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1135852685
Total Pages : 248 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (358 download)
Download or read book In Defense of Judicial Elections written by Chris W. Bonneau and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2009-06-02 with total page 248 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: One of the most contentious issues in politics today is the propriety of electing judges. Ought judges be independent of democratic processes in obtaining and retaining their seats, or should they be subject to the approval of the electorate and the processes that accompany popular control? While this debate is interesting and often quite heated, it usually occurs without reference to empirical facts--or at least accurate ones. Also, empirical scholars to date have refused to take a position on the normative issues surrounding the practice. Bonneau and Hall offer a fresh new approach. Using almost two decades of data on state supreme court elections, Bonneau and Hall argue that opponents of judicial elections have made—and continue to make—erroneous empirical claims. They show that judicial elections are efficacious mechanisms that enhance the quality of democracy and create an inextricable link between citizens and the judiciary. In so doing, they pioneer the use of empirical data to shed light on these normative questions and offer a coherent defense of judicial elections. This provocative book is essential reading for anyone interested in the politics of judicial selection, law and politics, or the electoral process. Part of the Controversies in Electoral Democracy and Representation series edited by Matthew J. Streb.
Author : Philip L. Dubois
Publisher : University of Texas Press
ISBN 13 : 0292768664
Total Pages : 333 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (927 download)
Download or read book From Ballot to Bench written by Philip L. Dubois and published by University of Texas Press. This book was released on 1980-10-01 with total page 333 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Over several decades, many U.S. states abandoned the practice of selecting their judges by direct popular election and adopted the Missouri Plan of judicial selection. In From Ballot to Bench, Philip L. Dubois subjects the various criticisms raised against judicial elections to a more searching scrutiny than previously has been attempted. Dubois carefully reviews the three central counts on which judicial elections have been faulted: for lowering the quality of the bench, for impairing judicial independence, and for failing to secure judicial accountability. After concluding that the potential for judicial elections to hold judges popularly accountable is what might commend them over alternative selection methods, Dubois concentrates on the analysis of empirical evidence to evaluate judicial elections as mechanisms of accountability. The study examines all the statewide partisan and nonpartisan elections for state supreme court justices in non-southern states from 1948 to 1974. Included is a detailed examination of voter participation, electoral competition, the behavior of judicial electorates, and the patterns of gubernatorial vacancy appointments. An analysis of decision making on eight state supreme courts also tests the relationship between different selection systems and judicial behavior. Dubois finds that partisan elections maximize voter participation, meaningfully structure voter choices, minimize accession to the bench by appointment, and allow popular control over gubernatorial appointments. Additional evidence on the extent of partisan voting by judges selected under different methods leads Dubois to conclude that partisan elections are superior to both nonpartisan elections and nonelective selection methods as instruments of accountability. The importance of the questions addressed, the breadth of the data collected, and the unorthodox conclusions offered make this a significant book for political scientists, judges, lawyers, and public officials.
Author : Chris W. Bonneau
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1317288211
Total Pages : 287 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (172 download)
Download or read book Judicial Elections in the 21st Century written by Chris W. Bonneau and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2016-12-08 with total page 287 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Leading authorities present the latest cutting edge research on state judicial elections. Starting with recent transformations in the electoral landscape, including those brought about by U.S. Supreme Court rulings, this volume provides penetrating 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. Overall, this collection provides a sharp evidence-based portrait of how modern judicial elections actually work in practice and their consequences for state judiciaries and the American people.
Author : Meryl Chertoff
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Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (137 download)
Download or read book Check One and the Accountability is Done written by Meryl Chertoff and published by . This book was released on 2012 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: States that elect judges are heir to a populist tradition dating back to the Jacksonian era. In the spectrum between independence and accountability, these states emphasize accountability. Systems vary from state to state, and even within states there may be geographic diversity or different selection systems for different levels of courts. Elections can be partisan or non-partisan, contested, or, as in merit-selection states, retention. Some states have dabbled in public financing of judicial elections. Reformers are most critical of contested partisan elections. Those are the elections where the most money is spent, the nastiest ads aired, and the dignity of the judicial office most often impugned. One factor that often goes unnoticed, perhaps because of its unquestioned status in a partisan election, is the ballot itself. Critics of partisan judicial elections decry the very concept of attaching a party label to a judicial candidate. The argument certainly has its merits. However, even if a voter blindly checks the box for every Democrat (for example) on the ballot, at least he has to confront the name and notice that the candidate is running for a judgeship. Some sort of internal evaluation -- perhaps memory recall of campaign literature or radio advertisements -- remotely informs the choice. Nevertheless, in a few states, the voter need not even do that; he literally need only check a single box and be out of the voting booth in thirty seconds or less. Straight-ticket voting virtually nullifies the legitimacy of judicial selection in partisan election states. The low informational nature of these races makes straight-ticket voting attractive to the uninformed voter. Parties in states that allow the practice seize the opportunity to take advantage of the uninformed voter and urge the single checkmark.
Author : Matthew J Streb
Publisher : NYU Press
ISBN 13 : 0814786928
Total Pages : 268 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (147 download)
Download or read book Running for Judge written by Matthew J Streb and published by NYU Press. This book was released on 2009-07-01 with total page 268 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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 timely, insightful analysis of judicial elections. The book ties together the current state of the judicial elections literature, and presents new evidence on a wide range of important topics, including: the history of judicial elections; an understanding of the types of judicial elections; electoral competition during races; the increasing importance of campaign financing; voting in judicial elections; the role interest groups play in supporting candidates; party organizing in supposedly non-partisan elections; judicial accountability; media coverage; and judicial reform of elections. Running for Judge is an engaging, accessible, empirical analysis of the major issues surrounding judicial elections, with contributions from prominent scholars in the fields of judicial politics, political behavior, and law. Contributors: Lawrence Baum, Chris W. Bonneau, Brent D. Boyea, Paul Brace, Rachel P. Caufield, Jennifer Segal Diascro, Brian Frederick, Deborah Goldberg, Melinda Gann Hall, Richard L. Hasen, David Klein, Brian F. Schaffner, and Matthew J. Streb.
Author : Philip L. Dubois
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 646 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (89 download)
Download or read book Judicial Elections in the States written by Philip L. Dubois and published by . This book was released on 1978 with total page 646 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Richard A. Posner
Publisher : Harvard University Press
ISBN 13 : 0674033833
Total Pages : 399 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (74 download)
Download or read book How Judges Think written by Richard A. Posner and published by Harvard University Press. This book was released on 2010-05-01 with total page 399 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A distinguished and experienced appellate court judge, Richard A. Posner offers in this new book a unique and, to orthodox legal thinkers, a startling perspective on how judges and justices decide cases. When conventional legal materials enable judges to ascertain the true facts of a case and apply clear pre-existing legal rules to them, Posner argues, they do so straightforwardly; that is the domain of legalist reasoning. However, in non-routine cases, the conventional materials run out and judges are on their own, navigating uncharted seas with equipment consisting of experience, emotions, and often unconscious beliefs. In doing so, they take on a legislative role, though one that is confined by internal and external constraints, such as professional ethics, opinions of respected colleagues, and limitations imposed by other branches of government on freewheeling judicial discretion. Occasional legislators, judges are motivated by political considerations in a broad and sometimes a narrow sense of that term. In that open area, most American judges are legal pragmatists. Legal pragmatism is forward-looking and policy-based. It focuses on the consequences of a decision in both the short and the long term, rather than on its antecedent logic. Legal pragmatism so understood is really just a form of ordinary practical reasoning, rather than some special kind of legal reasoning. Supreme Court justices are uniquely free from the constraints on ordinary judges and uniquely tempted to engage in legislative forms of adjudication. More than any other court, the Supreme Court is best understood as a political court.
Author : Christopher William Bonneau
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Total Pages : 400 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (129 download)
Download or read book Money, Judges, and Votes written by Christopher William Bonneau and published by . This book was released on 2002 with total page 400 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Kyle Cheek
Publisher : Peter Lang
ISBN 13 : 9780820467672
Total Pages : 204 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (676 download)
Download or read book Judicial Politics in Texas written by Kyle Cheek and published by Peter Lang. This book was released on 2005 with total page 204 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In recent years, judicial elections have changed dramatically. The elections themselves have become increasingly partisan, interest group involvement in judicial races has escalated, recent court decisions have freed judicial candidates to speak more openly than ever before about their judicial ideologies, and the tenor of judicial campaigns has departed significantly from what were once low-key, sleepy affairs. This book examines the evolution of the new rough-and-tumble politics of judicial elections by focusing on Texas, a bellwether for the new judicial selection politics in America. The Texas experience illustrates what can - and usually will - go wrong when judges are elected, and lays the path for meaningful reforms to stem the tide of the new politics of judicial elections.
Author : Melinda Gann Hall
Publisher : Stanford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0804793093
Total Pages : 264 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (47 download)
Download or read book Attacking Judges written by Melinda Gann Hall and published by Stanford University Press. This book was released on 2014-10-29 with total page 264 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Nasty, below-the-belt campaigns, mudslinging, and character attacks. These tactics have become part and parcel of today's election politics in America, and judicial elections are no exception. Attacking Judges takes a close look at the effects of televised advertising, including harsh attacks, on state supreme court elections. Author Melinda Gann Hall investigates whether these divisive elections have damaging consequences for representative democracy. To do this, Hall focuses on two key aspects of those elections: the vote shares of justices seeking reelection and the propensity of state electorates to vote. In doing so, Attacking Judges explores vital dimensions of the conventional wisdom that campaign politics has deleterious consequences for judges, voters, and state judiciaries. Countering the prevailing wisdom with empirically based conclusions, Hall uncovers surprising and important insights, including new revelations on how attack ads influence public engagement with judicial elections and their relative effectiveness in various types of state elections. Attacking Judges is a testament to the power of institutions in American politics and the value of empirical political science research in helping to inform some of the most significant debates on the public agenda. This book's results smartly contest and eradicate many of the fears judicial reformers have about the damaging effects of campaign negativity in modern state supreme court elections.
Author : Olethia Davis
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 344 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (285 download)
Download or read book A Multivariate Analysis of Voter Turnout in Louisiana Contested Nonpartisan Judicial Elections, 1981-1988 written by Olethia Davis and published by . This book was released on 1991 with total page 344 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Jean Askham
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 54 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (321 download)
Download or read book Courts, Judges and Voters written by Jean Askham and published by . This book was released on 1990 with total page 54 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Herbert M. Kritzer
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 32 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (13 download)
Download or read book Judicial Elections in the 2010s written by Herbert M. Kritzer and published by . This book was released on 2017 with total page 32 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This paper provides an update Justices on the Ballot by assessing what changes have occurred in patterns of state supreme court elections in the period 2010-16 compared to the previous six and a half decades. The paper examines patterns of campaign contributions and expenditures (starting in the 1980s or 1990s), contestation and competitiveness, partisanship, and television advertising (starting with the 1999-2000 election cycle). Even though the current decade began with the startling defeat of three Iowa justices in the 2010 retention election, there has been surprising little change in the current decade:• Campaign contributions and expenditures have been stable (or possibly declined slightly). • Contestation and competition has, if anything, seen a very slight decline, with the exception that there has been an increase in the proportion of retention elections in which the incumbent has received less than a 55 percent yes-vote. • The volume and tone of television advertising has been steady.The one area of change is increasing patterns of partisanship in formally nonpartisan elections, both those using a contested format (two or more candidates) and those a retention format. . As one would expect, partisanship in elections conducted on a partisan basis has always been high and continues to be so. Before 2010 there was a pattern of increasing partisanship in the two states with a hybrid format, but that leveled off in the current decade. The change that has occurred has been an increase in partisan voting patterns in nonpartisan and retention elections, both of which are intended to be nonpartisan. The average correlation using county-level data between voting in nonpartisan judicial elections and gubernatorial elections more than doubled between the 1980s from .27 to .62 in the current decade. That correlation in retention elections increased about 50 percent from .27 to .42 during the same period.The paper concludes with a discussion of the likely reasons for the increasing partisanship in elections intended to be nonpartisan, and thoughts on the implications of this increase for how state supreme court justices are selected and retained.
Author : Herbert M. Kritzer
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Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (137 download)
Download or read book Change in State Supreme Court Elections written by Herbert M. Kritzer and published by . This book was released on 2011 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Judicial elections, particularly elections to state supreme courts, have generated substantial commentary over the last decade. Observers have asserted that elections have become more hotly contested, nastier, more expensive, and more divisive. This paper focuses on the question of whether elections are increasingly partisan. Using a data set of all statewide partisan and nonpartisan elections since 1946 plus a subset of retention elections from that same period, patterns of partisanship in voting are examined. The results of the analysis show that in some circumstances voting patterns in state supreme court elections have become more partisan. Elections that are explicitly partisan have not changed. The change has occurred in a subset of the states employing nonpartisan elections. The states that have experienced this change are those where the state supreme court has been called upon to decide questions where the issues align with partisan divisions (death penalty, same-sex marriage, abortion, property rights, tort reform). Where strong partisan patterns have occurred in retention elections these patterns typically arise in the wake of a controversial decision dealing with one of the partisan-aligned issues. The paper concludes by observing that if courts deal with issues that activate partisan divisions, it is not surprising that voters, given the opportunity, will respond in a way that reflects those same partisan divisions. Importantly, the retention elections associated with the so-called “merit” system do not escape this pattern when the justices of the courts who must stand for retention decide divisive issues.
Author : Susan Blackmore Hannah
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 554 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (129 download)
Download or read book An Evaluation of Judicial Elections in Michigan, 1948-1968 written by Susan Blackmore Hannah and published by . This book was released on 1972 with total page 554 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : University of California, Davis. Institute of Governmental Affairs
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Total Pages : 100 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (321 download)
Download or read book IGA Research Reports written by University of California, Davis. Institute of Governmental Affairs and published by . This book was released on 1980 with total page 100 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
