Canes-Wrone, Brandice; Clark, Tom S.; Park, Jee-Kwang - In: Journal of Law, Economics and Organization 28 (2012) 2, pp. 211-234
Judges face retention elections in over a third of US state courts of last resort and numerous lower courts. According to conventional wisdom, these elections engender judicial independence and decrease democratic accountability. We argue that in the context of modern judicial campaigns,...