This article examines whether the judges of the French Constitutional Court demonstrated partisanship when ruling on the validity of the elections to the lower house of the French Parliament between 1958 and 2005. It uses a new dataset on the decisions of the Constitutional Court which takes...

Recent trends in judicial elections, including expensive rough-and-tumble campaigns characterized by televised attack advertising and politicized discourse, are causing advocacy groups and legal scholars to condemn the practice of electing judges. This paper addresses an important aspect of this...

Judicial elections, particularly elections to state supreme courts, have generated substantial commentary over the last decade. Observers have asserted that elections have become more hotly contested, nastier, more expensive, and more divisive. This paper focuses on the question of whether...