Voters' Verdicts: Citizens, Campaigns, and Institutions in State Supreme Court Elections

by Chris W. Bonneau, Damon M Cann, Damon M. Cann

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...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0813937590
• ISBN13: 9780813937595
• Release Date: July 2015
• Publisher: University of Virginia Press
• Length: 176 Pages
• Weight: 0.70 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 5.7" x 8.7"