Electing judges : the surprising effects of campaigning on judicial legitimacy /
"In Electing Judges, James L. Gibson responds to the growing chorus of critics who fear that the politics of running for office undermine judicial independence. While many people have opinions on the topic, few have supported them with empirical evidence. Gibson rectifies this situation, offeri...
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| Language: | English |
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Chicago ; London :
University of Chicago Press,
[2012]
©2012 |
| Series: | Chicago studies in American politics
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Table of Contents:
- The "new style" judicial elections in the American states
- Republican Party of Minnesota v. White and perceptions of judicial impartiality
- Can campaign activity cross the line?
- Diffuse support for a state supreme court: judicial legitimacy in Kentucky
- Expectancy theory and judicial legitimacy
- Judges, elections, and the American mass public: the effects of judicial campaigns on the legitimacy of courts
- Judicial campaigns, elections for judges, and court legitimacy: do judicial elections really stink?
- Appendix A: legal developments post-White
- Appendix B: the surveys
- Appendix C: experimental vignettes
- Appendix D: question wording
- Appendix E: the distributions of key analytical variables
- Appendix F: interactive analysis
- Appendix G: measuring support for democratic institutions and processes
- Appendix H: question wording
- Appendix I: adding control variables