Shugerman, Jed Handelsman,  1974- <br/><br/>
The people's courts  pursuing judicial independence in America /  [electronic resource] : 
Jed Handelsman Shugerman. 
 - Cambridge, Mass. :  Harvard University Press,  2012. 
 - viii, 381 p. 
<br/><br/>Includes bibliographical references and index. 
<br/><br/>Declaring judicial independence -- Judicial elections as separation of powers -- The calm before the storm -- Panic and trigger -- The American revolutions of 1848 -- The boom of judicial review -- Reconstructing independence -- The progressives' failed solutions -- Earl Warren, crime, and the revival of appointment -- The Missouri plan -- Exporting judicial elections -- The puzzling rise of merit -- Merit's stumble and surge, 1960s-70s -- Judicial plutocracy from 1980 to the present. 
<br/><br/><br/>Electronic reproduction. <br/>Palo Alto, Calif. : <br/>ebrary, <br/>2011. <br/>Available via World Wide Web. <br/>Access may be limited to ebrary affiliated libraries. 
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<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Topical Terms: </label><br/>Judges--States--Election--History.--United States<br/>Judicial independence--History.--United States
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<br/><br/><label>LC Class. No.: </label>KF8776  / .S54 2012eb 
<br/><br/><label>Dewey Class. No.: </label>347.73/14