Electing judges : the surprising effects of campaigning on judicial legitimacy /

Bibliographic Details
Main Author:	Gibson, James L., 1951-
Corporate Author:	ebrary, Inc
Format:	eBook
Language:	English
Published:	Chicago : University of Chicago Press, 2012.
Series:	Chicago studies in American politics.
Subjects:	Judges > United States > Election. Judicial ethics > United States. Electronic books.
Online Access:	Connect to the full text of this electronic book

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.