The People's Courts : : Pursuing Judicial Independence in America /

The People's Courts : : Pursuing Judicial Independence in America / / Jed Handelsman Shugerman.

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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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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter E-BOOK GESAMTPAKET / COMPLETE PACKAGE 2012
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Shugerman, Jed Handelsman,
Place / Publishing House:Cambridge, MA : : Harvard University Press, , [2012]
©2012
Year of Publication:2012
Language:English
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Physical Description:1 online resource (391 p.) :; 2 line illustrations, 2 graphs, 7 tables
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Introduction: America's Peculiar Institution
  • CHAPTER ONE. Declaring Judicial In de pen dence
  • CHAPTER TWO. Judicial Challenges in the Early Republic
  • CHAPTER THREE. Judicial Elections as Separation of Powers
  • CHAPTER FOUR. Panic and Trigger
  • CHAPTER FIVE. The American Revolutions of 1848
  • CHAPTER SIX. The Boom in Judicial Review
  • CHAPTER SEVEN. Reconstructing Independence
  • CHAPTER EIGHT. The Progressives' Failed Solutions
  • CHAPTER NINE. The Great Depression, Crime, and the Revival of Appointment
  • CHAPTER TEN. The Puzzling Rise of Merit
  • CHAPTER ELEVEN. Judicial Plutocracy after 1980
  • Conclusion: Interests, Ideas, and Judicial Independence
  • Appendix A: Judicial Elections Timeline
  • Notes
  • Acknowledgments
  • Index

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