Attacking Judges - How Campaign Advertising Influences State Supreme Court Elections

Zusatztext " Attacking Judges is a first-rate book with important implications for the ongoing debate over judicial selection and retention. Hall's timely study of this controversial issue is a superb example of how quantitative analysis can inform both academic and political debates." Informationen zum Autor Melinda Gann Hall is Distinguished Professor of Political Science at Michigan State University. She is the coauthor (with Chris Bonneau) of In Defense of Judicial Elections . Klappentext Attacking Judges provides rigorous evidence that televised advertising, including harsh attacks, do not have the harsh consequences initially predicted or widely feared on justices seeking reelection or state electorates in supreme court elections. Zusammenfassung Attacking Judges provides rigorous evidence that televised advertising, including harsh attacks, do not have the harsh consequences initially predicted or widely feared on justices seeking reelection or state electorates in supreme court elections.

Product details

• Authors: Melinda Hall, Melinda Gann Hall, Hall Melinda
• Publisher: Stanford University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 29.10.2014
• EAN: 9780804787956
• ISBN: 978-0-8047-8795-6
• No. of pages: 264
• Series: Stanford Studies in Law and Politics; Stanford Studies in Law and Po; Stanford Studies in Law and Politics; Stanford Studies in Law and Po
• Subject: Social sciences, law, business > Business > General, dictionaries