Herbert M. Kritzer

Justices on the Ballot

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 310
• Erscheinungstermin: 3. Oktober 2019
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 17mm
• Gewicht: 452g
• ISBN-13: 9781107462991
• ISBN-10: 1107462991
• Artikelnr.: 57972068

Autorenporträt

Herbert M. Kritzer is the Marvin J. Sonosky Chair of Law and Public Policy at the University of Minnesota Law School. Over the last twenty years he has conducted research on the American civil justice system relating to contingency fee legal practice, scientific evidence, and alternative forms of representation, among many other topics. He is the author of six books, including Risks, Reputations, and Rewards: Contingency Fee Legal Practice in the United States (2004).

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction
1. A tale of two states
2. Judicial elections then and now
3. So what, do judicial elections matter?
4. Contestation and competitiveness in state supreme court elections, 1946¿2012
5. Changes in supreme election campaigns, money, and advertising
6. Patterns of partisanship in contested elections
7. Patterns of partisanship in retention elections
8. Judicial elections in a highly partisan world.