Running for Judge : : The Rising Political, Financial, and Legal Stakes of Judicial Elections / / ed. by Matthew J. Streb.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter New York University Press Backlist eBook-Package 2000-2013
• MitwirkendeR: Baum, Lawrence,; Bonneau, Chris W.,; Boyea, Brent D.,; Brace, Paul,; Caufield, Rachel P.,; Frederick, Brian,; Gann Hall, Melinda,; Goldberg, Deborah,; Hasen, Richard L.,; Klein, David,; Schaffner, Brian F.,; Segal Diascro, Jennifer,; Streb, Matthew J,; Streb, Matthew J.,
• HerausgeberIn: Streb, Matthew J.,
• Place / Publishing House: New York, NY : : New York University Press, , [2007]; ©2007
• Year of Publication: 2007
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource

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...

Table of Contents

• Frontmatter
• 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 States
• 11 Judicial Reform and the Future of Judicial Elections
• Bibliography
• About the Contributors
• Index