The people's courts : pursuing judicial independence in America

The people's courts : pursuing judicial independence in America / Jed Handelsman Shugerman.

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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Main Author: Shugerman, Jed Handelsman, 1974-
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Cambridge, Mass. : Harvard University Press, 2012.
Subjects:
Judges > United States > States > Election > History.
Judicial independence > United States > History.
LAW > Civil Procedure.
LAW > Legal Services.
POLITICAL SCIENCE > Government > Judicial Branch.
POLITICAL SCIENCE > American Government > Judicial Branch.
Judges > U.S. states > Election
Judicial independence
United States
History
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Table of Contents:
  • Declaring judicial independence
  • Judicial elections as separation of powers
  • The calm before the storm
  • Panic and trigger
  • The American revolutions of 1848
  • The boom of judicial review
  • Reconstructing independence
  • The progressives' failed solutions
  • Earl Warren, crime, and the revival of appointment
  • The Missouri plan
  • Exporting judicial elections
  • The puzzling rise of merit
  • Merit's stumble and surge, 1960s-70s
  • Judicial plutocracy from 1980 to the present.

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