MARC Record from Library of Congress

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050 00 $aKF8776$b.S54 2012
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100 1 $aShugerman, Jed Handelsman,$d1974-
245 14 $aThe people's courts :$bpursuing judicial independence in America /$cJed Handelsman Shugerman.
260 $aCambridge, Mass. :$bHarvard University Press,$c2012.
263 $a1201
300 $ap. cm.
504 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index.
505 0 $aDeclaring 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.
650 0 $aJudges$zUnited States$xStates$xElection$xHistory.
650 0 $aJudicial independence$zUnited States$xHistory.