The people's courts
Subtitle: pursuing judicial independence in America
By: Jed Handelsman Shugerman
Publisher: Harvard University Press
Published: 2012
Place of publication: Cambridge, Mass
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9780674055483
Subjects: States; Judges; Judicial independence; Election; History
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Declaring judicial independence; title: Judicial elections as separation of powers; title: The calm before the storm; title: Panic and trigger; title: The American revolutions of 1848; title: The boom of judicial review; title: Reconstructing independence; title: The progressives' failed solutions; title: Earl Warren, crime, and the revival of appointment; title: The Missouri plan; title: Exporting judicial elections; title: The puzzling rise of merit; title: Merit's stumble and surge, 1960s-70s; title: Judicial plutocracy from 1980 to the present.