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The Challenges of Judicial Selection and Retention in the States

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  06 April 2020

Herbert M. Kritzer
Herbert M. Kritzer
Affiliation:
University of Minnesota School of Law
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The introductory chapter opens with a brief discussion of recent events in two states, North Carolina and Tennessee. The chapter lays out the contrasting motivations of legal professionalism and partisan/policy responsiveness, which are linked to the ideas of the democratic and legal subcultures described almost 50 years ago by Richard Richardson and Kenneth Vines. A highly abbreviated history of judicial selection in the U.S., emphasizing the various phases, sets the stage for the chapters that follow.

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history of judicial selectionlegal subculturedemocratic subculture
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Judicial Selection in the States
Politics and the Struggle for Reform
 , pp. 1 - 30
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Print publication year: 2020

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  • Introduction
  • Herbert M. Kritzer
  • Book: Judicial Selection in the States
  • Online publication: 06 April 2020
  • Chapter DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/9781108866941.003
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  • Introduction
  • Herbert M. Kritzer
  • Book: Judicial Selection in the States
  • Online publication: 06 April 2020
  • Chapter DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/9781108866941.003
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  • Introduction
  • Herbert M. Kritzer
  • Book: Judicial Selection in the States
  • Online publication: 06 April 2020
  • Chapter DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/9781108866941.003
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