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Voters' Verdicts: Citizens, Campaigns, and Institutions in State Supreme Court Elections (Constitutionalism and Democracy)
Bonneau, Chris W., Cann, Damon M.
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Description for Voters' Verdicts: Citizens, Campaigns, and Institutions in State Supreme Court Elections (Constitutionalism and Democracy)
Hardcover. Addresses contemporary concerns with judicial elections by investigating factors that influence votersAE decisions in the election of state supreme court judges. Chris Bonneau and Damon Cann demonstrate that the move to nonpartisan elections, while it depresses political participation, does little to mute the effects of partisanship and ideology. Series: Constitutionalism and Democracy. Num Pages: 192 pages, tables, figures. BIC Classification: 1KBB; JPHF; LNAA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140 x 18. Weight in Grams: 318.
In Voters’ Verdicts, Chris Bonneau and Damon Cann address contemporary concerns with judicial elections by investigating factors that influence voters’ decisions in the election of state supreme court judges. Bonneau and Cann demonstrate that the move to nonpartisan elections, while it depresses political participation, does little to mute the effects of partisanship and ideology. The authors note the irony that judicial elections, often faulted for politicizing the legal process, historically represented an attempt to correct the lack of accountability in the selection of judges by appointment, since unlike appointive systems, the judicial elections are at least transparent.
This comprehensive ... Read more
In Voters’ Verdicts, Chris Bonneau and Damon Cann address contemporary concerns with judicial elections by investigating factors that influence voters’ decisions in the election of state supreme court judges. Bonneau and Cann demonstrate that the move to nonpartisan elections, while it depresses political participation, does little to mute the effects of partisanship and ideology. The authors note the irony that judicial elections, often faulted for politicizing the legal process, historically represented an attempt to correct the lack of accountability in the selection of judges by appointment, since unlike appointive systems, the judicial elections are at least transparent.
This comprehensive ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2015
Publisher
University of Virginia Press
Condition
New
Series
Constitutionalism and Democracy
Number of Pages
192
Place of Publication
Charlottesville, United States
ISBN
9780813937595
SKU
V9780813937595
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About Bonneau, Chris W., Cann, Damon M.
Chris W. Bonneau, Associate Professor of Political Science at the University of Pittsburgh, USA, is coauthor with Melinda Gann Hall of In Defense of Judicial Elections. Damon M. Cann, Associate Professor of Political Science at Utah State University, USA, is author of Sharing the Wealth: Member Contributions and the Exchange Theory of Party Influence in the U.S. House of ... Read more
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